Third world semi-isolated mountain cultures such as the Gurkhas, Chechens, and Pashtuns (Taliban) definitely put out a higher percentage of badasses than plains cultures. Beyond culture, just living in mountains hardens people physically and mentally. You'll find a lot of badasses sprinkled through small mountain towns in the US and Canada, too, but our societies are anti-warrior, developed, mobile, and have a high convenience factor which makes it harder to build up a widespread active culture/community of warriors like the 3 groups mentioned above.
As my 2 boys get older I plan on regularly doing a bunch of altitude training (mainly hiking with heavy backpacks) as part of my strategy to harden them up.
As my 2 boys get older I plan on regularly doing a bunch of altitude training (mainly hiking with heavy backpacks) as part of my strategy to harden them up.