As close as you can get to Mount Everest...

...without getting shot. This is where protesters unfurled a Free Tibet banner in the summer; the Americans involved were deported. The Tibetan involved has not been heard of since.

The Best Bar in the World!

November 10th 2007
EBC Trip, Saturday 10th November After a very cold night we were up by 8am, the earliest I've been up on a Saturday morning for years - well, I had a good reason! We set off not long after rising, as cleaning our teeth wasn't the first thing on our minds in the subzero temperatures, not to mention the state of the "bathroom" - a hole in the ground under a semi sheltered hut from which emanated suc ... 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

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