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Climbing Mountains For Inspiration: What’s Wrong With This Picture

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The Big Picture –  By Glynn Wilson –  MOUNT MITCHELL, N.C. — Literary history is filled with stories about motivated people climbing up mountains for inspiration. Moses supposedly hiked up Mount Sinai and came back with the Ten Commandments. George Mallory told the New York Times in 1923 that he climbed Mount Everest “because it’s…