This reminds me of a comic strip. Perhaps Dilbert? More like Bloom County? Imagine the mountain as a graph of, say, revenue over time, and my daughter as a stick figure trying to climb it:
Oh! XKCD! That sounds like a comic design XKCD would do!
The truth is also kind of out there: my pre-teen daughter has started the climb up this ridge at Badlands National Park. I have no pictures of her at the top because…I was rooted to the spot watching her in fear and pride.
(I did not send her up there for a photo op. She asked me to let her go. Don’t worry: there is a path she’s climbing, we had been watching other kids go up it. She was in no real danger. But try telling that to my 2012 self at that moment!)