Dispatches; Summit Fever and Travelling Travellers
February 1st 2011 While I was in Cuzco, with the dark lord Satan himself tying knots in my guts and wringing them out every half hour, I did manage to get to a bookshop. I picked up a battered copy of Sebastian Junger's 'The Perfect Storm', you may recal the mediocre Hollywood adaptation starring Marky Mark Wahlberg and George Clooney.
Anyway, it gives the account of a freak weather event in 1991 off the North Ame
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