After several tough hours, I was past the most technical section of the climb, on some big, open ice blocks.
And it doesn't come with the pay cheque of other high-pressured jobs with tough hours.
During those tough hours I had the feeling that we were transmitting only to ourselves in Doha.
Millions of hot, tough hours of manual work have gone into terracing and training these great hills of schist into vineyards.
"We played four very tough hours and we were 2-1 down," said Bolelli.
Of course, if you do make it, you'll find life equally tough, hours almost as long, students even more demanding, and pressure to ?produce the goods?
For 2 1/2 tough hours, Thomas McCormack's new play "House," at the Falcon Theatre in Burbank, makes the world of Manhattan book publishing seem awfully dull indeed.
"As Queensland faces its toughest hour, the cabinet will meet to immediately begin the significant rebuilding process," she said.
"Europe faces one of its toughest, perhaps the toughest hour since the Second World War," Ms Merkel told her supporters, "if the euro fails, then Europe fails.
So while the national debt remains troublingly high, Mr. Buffett says, "this isn't the country's toughest hour by a large margin".
Merkel had earlier described the crisis as probably Europe's toughest hour since the second world war, but again spurned UK proposals for a Eurobond or for the European central bank to become lender of last resort to prop up the euro.
