The Windhorse"Two friends, one blind, the other an experienced mountaineer, tell of their great adventure in Nepal"--Jacket. |
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... thousand feet – and we're only about a hundred feet above it ... my goodness , there's a gompa just gone past the left - hand window ! ' ( She explained afterwards that the gompa * was built halfway up a large cliff . ) Then , with a ...
... thousand feet – and we're only about a hundred feet above it ... my goodness , there's a gompa just gone past the left - hand window ! ' ( She explained afterwards that the gompa * was built halfway up a large cliff . ) Then , with a ...
Page 104
... thousand feet , an altitude that bothers very few people . Now , after ten days of trekking at around that altitude , she was ill at eleven and a half thousand feet . ' Breathing okay ? ' ' Yes , that's okay . And the headache got ...
... thousand feet , an altitude that bothers very few people . Now , after ten days of trekking at around that altitude , she was ill at eleven and a half thousand feet . ' Breathing okay ? ' ' Yes , that's okay . And the headache got ...
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... thousand feet of altitude at this rate . I lay wide awake in the dark hours before dawn , my stomach in a tight knot of anxiety and indecision . Should we go up to Khumjung today or not ? Should I confide my present ideas of defeat to ...
... thousand feet of altitude at this rate . I lay wide awake in the dark hours before dawn , my stomach in a tight knot of anxiety and indecision . Should we go up to Khumjung today or not ? Should I confide my present ideas of defeat to ...
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