Article: Travel: Mountain high Fortified by creme de menthe, Bill Powell and party go where few fiftysomethings have gone before - up into the Himalayas for a week in a tent

SPRAWLED wearily amid the rocks halfway up a mountain and handing round the creme de menthe, our little group of trekkers must look - to that lone vulture circling above in the thin air at least - more like Raiders of the Lost Cocktail Cabinet than your standard Himalaya explorers.

From a local vulture's perspective, no doubt, the pass we have just conquered is no big deal. Not when compared with the stupendous curtains of granite that fill the sky here on the Tibetan border, just inside the Indian state of Himachal Pradesh. Nevertheless, our little notch in the landscape, Charang Ghati, took us up to 17,200 feet - considerably higher than Mont Blanc. We toast the patrolling lammergeier ...

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