Getting high in Vietnam
October 20th 2005 Onto Sa Pa, a quaint mountainside town in the North Western corner of Vietnam. We came here for one reason, to climb Mount Fan Xi Pan; Vietnams highest mountain at 3143 metres above sea level. We started the three day trek after a days rest around town and set forth with happy optimism about the climb. The first day was a very hard slog, seven and a half hours of ascent ranging from steep, to very
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