"This is a story about the Huang Shan mountains, how Nick and a couple of friends decided to climb one (more or less on a whim), and how they then decided to climb down the mountain in the dark. I should be clear that this isn’t mountain climbing like you’d see where people are hanging by their fingernails as they ascend and descend, instead this looks like a mountain where there’s a pretty safe stairway carved into the mountain. Still, in an unfamiliar land in the dark there’s all kinds of risk. He also tells tales about getting sick of posing for photographs (as they were apparently the only Americans on the mountain