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Strategies & Market Trends : Asia Forum
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To: Robert Douglas who wrote (9415)10/25/1999 1:53:00 PM
From: Michael Sphar   of 9980
 
I think base camp is more like 18K+. In our travels we flew past Everest and four or five of the worlds tallest peaks several times. On a couple of occasions the views were fantastically clear. It is rather awe inspiring to be at jet cruising altitude and be looking out the window and up at mountain peaks higher than the aircraft. Those mountains are high!

I believe your story. When our bus climbed up from the Brahmaputra river basin to the Kamba Pass I thought I was okay, but later when we crossed the higher Karo Pass, and I got out and tried just walking around, I realized just how giddy and woozy I was feeling. And there a short ways from the top of the pass a group of Tibetan capitalists were selling raw quartz crystals and photo ops on the back of obliging yaks though some of the yaks grunted rather distressfully at the size of some of these Americans. Kamba Pass is rated as 5100 meters and Karo, 5200. So I guess we were a little over 17000 feet for a short time on the latter. Its a wonder that intrepid little bus managed to transport us so well for so long over nothing better than gravel roads and in some cases washed out river beds. Its nothing short of amazing to realize that for hundreds of years people only walked those trails.
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