As she said in her speech, she had a mountain of debt, so she got a job at a large law firm to start paying it down.
"One time, the book was about a train that wasn't sure she could get over the mountain, but she knew if she tried real hard, she could do it, " Ms. Walsh said.
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When she wasn't on the slopes she was roaring along mountain roads on her powerful motor-bike.
Another mystery: Once, hiking a mountain, she felt tired and went into convulsion.
To get rid of Harriet Boyd, an enthusiastic young American, he suggested she dig an inaccessible mountain site in eastern Crete.
Her mother, Nicky McAllister, said she would speak with mountain rescue workers to "get a better picture of exactly what happened".
She left college, a mountain of debt wasted, and began caring for her grandmother.
She was carried down the mountain by stretcher to Storey Arms where an ambulance was waiting.
It took rescuers hours to carry her on a sled down the mountain, where she was pronounced dead.
She fears for the animals' safety, not least because mountain gorillas do not always flee the sound of gunfire and mortars, she said.
But wouldn't you agree that rather than spending years dynamiting away the mountain, a better tack might be for someone to begin to exercise until he or she is in good enough shape to run up the mountain?
Brill is briefing her customers for another day at Silverton Mountain ski area, which she and her husband, Aaron, own.
The new system will run from the company as a whole right down to individual employees, something that she picked up from her tenure at Mountain View.
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She said the club's Respect the Mountain campaign was helping to raise awareness of environmental issues with skiers.
"We ate wild berries for breakfast and spit-roasted mountain goat for dinner, " she told the Moscow Times in 2002.
Robert Kelly and his wife, Sue Ann, retired young--he from pharmaceuticals, she from Cisco--and moved from Mountain View, Calif. to Louisville, Colo.
"You don't pronounce apostrophes, " she said, looking across the Hudson River at the mountain one day.
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In her last years Highsmith retreated to a small mountain village near Locarno, Switzerland, where she holed up with her cats.
Then a few years ago, Tina came home with an old slide projector and a box of slides labeled "Mountain Trip to Japan, 1959" that she'd picked up at estate sales.
But her true greatness lies in how, using a mountain of facts carefully gathered and presented, she could explain to a bewildered and anxious middle class the great economic question of her age.
She played it almost all last Sunday while I was out mountain biking, washing the car and breaking down IKEA boxes.
Some 30 members of Brecon, Central and Longtown mountain rescue teams were called and difficult conditions meant she could not be reached by rescue helicopter.
At inspired moments, she performed her criticism like a driver cruising down a familiar mountain road: braking rarely, speeding around the tricky turns, and swerving, with the faith of instinct, through a maze of potholes.
As she bounds through the grass with the Great Danes and the Bernese Mountain Dogs, I believe that there was never a dog so popular and well adjusted as mine (and yet realize at the same time that this is the height of my own particular brand of insanity).
In the mountain kingdom of Nepal it is particularly tough, especially if she is poor.
For nearly 20 years, she's worked to protect the land and natural resources of the mountain west.
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