The american kid said he did it three times a week, that it's nothing, but 4 AM, that busted van, with McDonald's sopa and that poor kid who got sick on those switchback mountain roads with no guard rails and MET life insurance signs at every turn and the view of the stepped, steep, rocky cliff towards death, with no brakes or oxygen at 13,000 ft, all to get to the Andes to go snowboarding for $5 US and get a view of forever was worth it.