The high road

Sneaking past the police at 5 AM

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September 17th 2007
Tiger Leaping Gorge was closed to the public. A hiker got caught in a mudslide and was killed. The rains have made the gorge a dangerous place to trek. It is not the first time someone has died on the trail either. Mudslides and falling rocks during the rainy season have claimed a handful of lives in the past several years. I was repeatedly warned not to hike the gorge. Once in Lijiang by the pers ... read more

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For centuries China stood as a leading civilization, outpacing the rest of the world in the arts and sciences, but in the 19th and early 20th centuries, the country was beset by civil unrest, major famines, military defeats, and foreign occupation. A... ... read more