www.Go To The Mountain - Musings of a Potential Guru

We never had rock climbing as a sport during our younger days. It could have been a lot of fun! It looks simple but not really that easy. Strong legs are essential to push and haul your body upwards but strong hands and even fingers are important too, I will show you later why the hands and fingers are important. Here you can see my children doing it. Clarence climbing and posing for a photo shoot minus Spiderman costume. Nicole in full focus. Spiderwoman? And about to ring the bell. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_KmivFbTTM Some climb as a form of exercise as in sports but others are extreme in nature. They do solo climbing without ropes, gears or safety equipments and scaling great heights. Then there is another form of the same but done at great speed in climbing and then jumping off a thousand feet dangled by a chord. Hold your breath as the actions unfold. There is no margin for error as one slip and you are dead. Clim...

Competition can bring out the best in products but also the worst in people. Bertrand Russell said: "Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim". Competition is defined as rivalry for supremacy or a prize. A contest for honour or to gain an advantage. There is a victor and a loser not necessary resulting in the destruction of the other. A struggle. The Competitive World Competition is serious business. When we were young our parents told us that if we do not study hard, we will be carrying night soil. To the uninitiated, night soil is in plain-speak "shit" in buckets normally carried by uneducated people in the old days when there is no sanitary services available. They place new buckets for you and disposed your filled ones where they carry to the world's vehicle with the most doors - all 36 doors to be exact. So do not be too happy if the company wanted to give you a car with 36 doors. Nations today are compet...