You had to be a mountain goat to climb into where they were found.

All the Chinese people Richard had ever met had been sophisticated urbanites, so he had been half expecting that he would end up carrying the girl Yuxia on his back. But it became clear almost immediately that she was half mountain goat, or whatever the Chinese equivalent of a mountain goat was.

The mountain got too steep to climb.

The lads are desperate to win. It is a mountain to climb now but they want to do it and so do I.

Once we get rolling, we're going to be great, but it's a steep mountain to climb when you go through this, ... But it's better we get it out of the way now. If we keep working and start getting some bounces, we're going to be fine. If you work hard and keep creating, things usually go your way.

The higher you climb on the mountain, the harder the wind blows