Do not loose height when climbing. I knew someone spent a considerable amount of time in the mountains of Yugoslavia during WWII. Once during the 1950s he and I were walking up large granite hill in the Matopo Hills near Bulawayo in the then Southern Rhodesia. His advice: When you climb a hill, if possible, take a line that does not go down and then up. This way you will not lose the height you have gained and save energy