In this talk from TED University 2009, veteran rock climber Matthew Childs shares nine pointers for rock climbing. These handy tips bear on an effective life at sea level, too.

You're a tool.

They tried to radio a message to Rob Hall, who was a superb climber stuck, sort of, with a weak climber up near the summit.

In 2006 he became the youngest British climber to summit Everest.

George Herbert Leigh Mallory (18 June 1886 8 or 9 June 1924) was an English mountaineer who took part in the first three British expeditions to Mount Everest in the early 1920s.

But to academics, intellectuals look like ramblers freely trespassing on other people s property, picking the fruits and despoiling the soil.

He loved history. He would tell me about Captain Scott walking all the way to the South Pole and Sir Edmund Hillary climbing up Mount Everest.

I climb mountains.

I was in the mountains.

I was in the mountains.

In the front, there are 10 ranches strung right along the base of the mountains using the water from the mountains.

Beit Baws Perched on the Mountains.

The mountains bruised and crushed ,

And the mountains , how they were fixed

And the mountains will be crushed , blown to bits .

And the mountains how they have been established ?

and the mountains crumbled

how the mountains were hoisted ,

And the mountains are crumbled , crumbled .

And at the mountains , how they are rooted ?

And the mountains will be powdered to dust .

And at the mountains , how they are rooted and fixed firm ?

And the mountains are crushed and crumbled .

And at the mountains how they are installed ?

and the mountains will crumble

And the mountains how they were fixed ?

And the hills are ground to powder

And the hills , how they are set up ?

and the mountains are shattered into bits

and the mountains , how they have been set ?

and the mountains fragmented

and how the mountains were firmly fixed ?

And the mountains are broken down , crumbling

And at the mountains how they are erected ?

and the mountains crumbled ,

how the mountains are set firm ,

And the mountains shall be made to crumble with ( an awful ) crumbling ,

And the mountains , how they are firmly fixed ,

and the mountains are totally shattered and crumble to pieces

and on the mountains , how they are firmly set up ,

And the mountains shall be crumbled to atoms ,

And at the Mountains , how they are fixed firm ?

I am thinking of going to the mountains.

The jagged mountains were capped with snow.

The mountains reduced to dust and blown away ,