When I had returned from my failed movie adventure with the Israelis in Gangtok I discovered that somehow in the meantime I'd been firmly included in a trekking group that was arranged by my guest house and which was leaving the next morning for a four-day Dzongri trek. I had never really asked details (since it had never really seemed like it was going to happen) so I was a bit confused as I sat down to tense discussions between one of the other trekkers and the manager of the guest house. I sat back and let them work out the details of cost, food, transportation, route, etc. I had, from the beginning, wanted to do as little thinking and arranging as possible and it seemed that, with just twelve hours left before departure time, I
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