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... eyes . Another side valley with a glacier , and still no campsite . The toil of such hiking excludes romance . It was 6:00 P.M. when I reached Urdukas . A mountain had sagged here to form a bulge on which perched boulders each several ...
... eyes . Another side valley with a glacier , and still no campsite . The toil of such hiking excludes romance . It was 6:00 P.M. when I reached Urdukas . A mountain had sagged here to form a bulge on which perched boulders each several ...
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... eyes had the intent yet vulnerable look of quiet despair , the eyes of a man whose aspirations have been crushed by the world's indifference . He could not support his family , he told us , not on the one hundred rupees a month the ...
... eyes had the intent yet vulnerable look of quiet despair , the eyes of a man whose aspirations have been crushed by the world's indifference . He could not support his family , he told us , not on the one hundred rupees a month the ...
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... eyes , but only a golden eagle quarters the cliffs . Again that night the snow leopard patrols the slopes in search ... eye , there is only rock ; I lie buried beneath the sediments of the ocean floor , and perhaps my skull will become a ...
... eyes , but only a golden eagle quarters the cliffs . Again that night the snow leopard patrols the slopes in search ... eye , there is only rock ; I lie buried beneath the sediments of the ocean floor , and perhaps my skull will become a ...
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