The phrase "about surmounting" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the act of overcoming challenges or obstacles in a particular context.
Example: "The seminar focused on strategies about surmounting difficulties in the workplace."
Alternatives: "regarding overcoming" or "concerning conquering".
In one chapter Mr. Gladwell explains how the people who produced "Sesame Street" went about surmounting the weakness of television as a teaching medium.
But "Primrose Hill" is all about surmounting boyishness.
Then again, maybe the primary was less about surmounting identity politics than capitalizing on identity theft.
Even in boom times arts management is about surmounting an inexorable series of obstacles.
In interviews, videos, regulatory filings and her writings, Orman repeats a personal story about surmounting adversity shortly after she started her own firm in 1987.
Motor scooters zip about surmounted sometimes by entire families, with a child perched fore and aft.
Write anything remotely skeptical about Sanders' difficulties surmounting Clinton's commanding lead in delegates, and you'll be accused of being in the tank for Clinton.
After making a satellite phone call to her doctor, she was confident that she would overcome her malady before surmounting the 4,700-meter 4,700-meter 15,000 feet) that lay before us.
Surmounting the structure at intervals of about three feet are Y-shaped pieces of metal, on which are strung strands of barbed wire that have become rusty.
But Kennedys have a way of surmounting pesky barriers like these, and conjecture about Kerry's seat, if it were to become open (which it has), was on the table.
The eastern group comprises Lanzarote, Fuerteventura Island, and six islets surmounting a single submarine plateau, the Canary Ridge, that rises about 4,500 feet (1,400 metres) from the ocean floor.
