In my 20s and 30s I used Lough Curra as a training ground to prepare for lofty mountains throughout the world, including Aconcagua in Argentina and Cotopaxi in Ecuador . In my own life I have been bullied on numerous occasions by egotistical, harsh people; the kind of people who resemble some of the characteristics of the world's autocrats . It often amazes me how blind we are to the faults of those who are powerful and wealthy