If not for this offshore financing, Hartley, 38, might be working as a radio repairman or a garbageman--jobs that keep his heroes occupied when they aren't playing chess with their .
It is seven years later: Simon is a Nobel prizewinner, Henry a garbageman in a sad marriage.
Fortunately for Fujisan, as the Japanese call the mountain, it's on the route of the best alpine garbageman in the world.