Mt. Everest

There and back again...A tale by Adele Jenkins!!

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July 13th 2006
Hello!!! Well that was officially the longest 6 days ever!!! We left at 9am last Thursday with our driver/guide who we gave a couple of names too. Freddy...because he looked like Fred Flinstone. Teddy....because he looked like a teddy bear (which I started calling him consistently....and sometimes he replied!) And his real name was Pintszo!! Which at first we thought was Pinto!! So off we w ... read more

Asia » China » Tibet » Lhasa

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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