Natmandu’s Posterous

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I took a gondola up the side of a mountain in China once - Jade Dragon Snow Mountain, around 4500 metres up. A short ride and they sell you oxygen masks, the snow is everywhere, and there are clouds below you. You could try skiing, but the presence of nothing more than tape to prevent a fall of several hundred feet off a cliff onto the jagged rocks below was a bit off-putting. The funniest thing was the Chinese tourists walking around the place admiring the view, an oxygen canister in one hand and a cigarette in the other, chain-puffing smokes and oxygen all the way.

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