Mary - I feel you completely miss the mark with your post which comes across as rather condescending.
You will find that TC and others here are not 'nervous' about flying in the mountains. Your experience of mountain waves and ridge lift is nothing like having to operate IN the mountains, especially on bad weather days (or nights).
I suspect that if you were taken into the mountains in a helicopter in 20 plus kts of wind you would not enjoy it at all.
BTW guess what subjects are covered in helicopter met lessons both during basic and advanced training and in QHI training (TC is an ex-QHI) - yes mountain waves, rotors, up and downdraughts, anabatic and katabatic winds etc etc etc.
Good post Crab but I beg to differ on your last paragraph.
After a decade fixed wing in Wales I obtained my PPL H at Jandakot Perth in 1989.
Waves rotors and downdraughts are not encountered in West Australia.
However I have memories of some pretty nasty ones in NW Wales.