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Article: Fabled Waterfall Found Near Roof of the World.(17-day trek into Tibetan gorge)(Brief Article)
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- Insight on the News
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- February 15, 1999
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Four Americans recently undertook a journey reminiscent of the great expeditions of the last century, when adventurers mapped entire continents as they searched for natural wonders.
Shrouded in the mists of a remote Tibetan gorge is one of the last great natural wonders on Earth -- a thundering, 100-foot-high waterfall that explorers have searched for in vain for more than a century. Four Americans found it in November.
"As I stood on the edge, gazing down into the mists and spray, I really felt I was right on the brink of another world" says Ian Baker, the scholar and writer who led the 17-day trek sponsored by the National Geographic Society.
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