During his days as a university student, Wang Hsin once looked all over Mount Ali for an area with some firm bedrock where he could study the mountain's geological strata, but everything he found was too crumbly to do him any good.
台大地理系教授王鑫在大學時代前往阿里山進行地質調查，在風景點四處尋找岩盤，遍尋都是岩石碎片。