Tuesday, December 30, 2008

lofty

They were skirting the western flank of Nanga Parbat, at 26,658 feet the earth's ninth-loftiest peak, which anchors the western edge of the Himalaya. - Three Cups of Tea

Wow! It's a good day's hike for me to get up to the Blue Ridge Parkway from where I live, and our southern Appalachian mountains are only 6,000 feet at their tallest.... I'm trying to wrap my mind around the Himalayan mountains.

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