Off we went the four of us with 6 days to reach the Nepalese border at Zhangmu and Mount Everest, no less, to take in along the way.Our driver was the very capable, cigarette totting , but mostly silent Tenzing. He immediately established with his limited english that Agnes had no chinese connection and then indicated that anything chinese should be thrown out of the jeep. Just as well that this was more a gesture than actually acted on as having done a checklist of the contents of my rucksack in Lhasa I realised that I had brought back about 80% of the clothes and electronics to their original place of manufacture - the Peoples Democratic Republic of China! First stop was a lonely mountain pass, at the highest (on land) we had ever been
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