Climbing to Darjeeling
February 14th 2006 This evening, Tuesday 14 February, we arrived at Darjeeling, the last word in tea, close to 7,000 feet above sea level, a height at which my lungs work harder than they ever have in order to process oxygen. Upon arriving at our fourth floor accommodations, huffing and puffing, I felt something was amiss, but silently blamed age. It was only when I tired quickly, going up a gentle street incline af
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