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• Mountain Climbing: Andover Hand
• One thing I like about mountain climbing is that there are always plenty of excuses for turning back before disaster strikes.
  -- Edward Abbey...
• An ulcer is what you get mountain-climbing over molehills.
• bugaboos: inordinate fear of mountain insects. -- "An Alphabet for Mountaineers", Climbing 1982
• If at first you don't succeed, well, so much for mountain climbing.
• We get ulcers by mountain-climbing over mole-hills!
• Real software engineers play tennis. In general, they don't like any sport that involves getting hot and sweaty and gross when out of range of a shower.
  (Thus mountain climbing is Right Out.) They will occasionally wear their tennis togs to work, but only on very sunny days....
• Real computer scientists play go. They have nothing against the concept of mountain climbing, but the actual climbing is an implementation detail best left to programmers.
• Alpenstock
  limited number of shares in mountain real estate -- "An Alphabet for Mountaineers", Climbing 1982...