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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
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- The Sunday Telegraph London
- Article date:
- March 1, 1998
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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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