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Blog: Climbing in the Alps
Date: June 30th 2006

Hi all. Am afraid that this will be a relatively long update (mainly for the benefit for the few of you who are interested in mountains - apologies for the rest of you!) So, the last two weeks have been spent trekking from Chamonix (France) to Zermatt (Switzerland), taking in as many peaks en-route as possible, via what's known as the Glacier Haute Route. Of course, for safety purposes ( ... read more


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Tot: 0.098s; Tpl: 0.004s; cc: 8; qc: 39; dbt: 0.0189s; 1; s:apollo w:www (50.28.60.10); sld: 2; ; mem: 6.4mb