I'm at the base of a big snowy cliff, looking up it, and explaining to someone how nobody can get up it. I point to a photo of an indigenous person, like a Sherpa (but in my mind he seems Andean or Chilean), dressed in rags and with a large pack on his back. "See, the only way to get to the top of the hill is these guys", and then continuing to look along the hill from left to right, I see something else, and add "... or that cable car."

There is a cable car also running up the snowy cliff, but it is a wild and crazy ride. I see the cars launch off the top of the hill, and plummet down the hill before righting themselves on their cable and coming to a nice tidy stop at the bottom. I remind my companion of a terrible cable car accident they may have heard of a few years back, and this was that cable car - and can you see why?

Then I see a person run at full speed off the cliff, running and flailing his arms in the air, and then land in a cloud of dust and a thud on a large landing pad such as one might use for gymnastics. He lands on his feet, near the edge of the pad, as though he very nearly missed it, which would not be surprising given the distance of the fall.

As we watch, another group of guys gets on the pad, and they are trying to help one of them jump from the bottom up to the top of the cliff (*1). They bounce him and throw him high, but he doesn't reach anywhere near the top. They try again, as he or another guy clenches his fists in frustration and desperation to perform this trick.

*1: Similar image to a joke video sent to me by my friend Mark, in which a guy launches himself hundreds of feet in the air using a seesaw-like contraption, and then parachutes back to the ground