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“Dave, what’s that noise? Someone, or something is going through the kit and dragging it around.”
'Don't worry about it Russ it’s only a raven or something.” “Yeah, but the thing it’s dragging is an oxygen cylinder!”
‘Go back to sleep m ate, and stop reading Stephen King before bedtim e!”
he Lonely Planet guide was wrong - Nyalam looks Tstates that Nyalam, a outwards and Hell Is the bor-
tion, they live in squalor in the taxis that hurtle around at most beautiful surroundings in breakneck speed and we the world and we are again stare in amazement at the '-stufck here waiting for the bor- children squatting in the street def and 'Friendship Bridge’ to going to the toilet only metres open. away from where their parents
are plucking chickens and pil­ We dodge the huge Tata ing them high on the dirty trucks and the small 800cc pavement. There is no Health
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town we passed through der town of Zhangmu.
on the way back from Chinese
Base Camp is known Sinomewhere between a Tibetan as ‘The Gateway Stopaghetti Western, an early Hell’. I assumed that the refeKr­ung Fu movie and Mad Max; ence was to the barreitn is a town of empty souls, Tibetan plateau beyond, butpeIople with no pride or ambi-
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Approaching camp 1.