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...Camp that night was on an open slope beside the Barrancco Wall, a rocky ridge that runs down the southwest face of the mountain. Late afternoon sun warmed and dried us and then the moon, almost full, rose over the towering peak above us, lighting the glacier like a sparkling diamond. No clouds meant a cold night, and there was frost on the tents and ground by morning...
Hilton professed that Shangri-la is not on any map, but that hasn't stopped numerous countries?Nepal, Ladakh, Sikkim and Bhutan, among others?from claiming to harbor the verdant Himalayan valley in the shadow of a glacier-clad peak, shaped like a pyramid. The People's Republic of China is the latest to jump on the bandwagon, announcing in 1996 that it had found Shangri-la in the mountainous Deqin prefecture of northwestern Yunnan province. Not to be outdone, Sichuan, its equally scenic neighbor to the north, has since claimed the title for its Yading Nature Reserve...
...away. Nobody would mistake this northern town, with its neocommunist concrete structures and rows of karaoke bars, for a terrestrial paradise, but nearby is the stunning Songzanlin Monastery, which could as easily have sprung from Hilton's imagination as that of a Tibetan architect. And Deqin?especially the majestic, glacier-draped Mount Kagbo, Yunnan's highest peak at 6,740 m?lives up to its billing. A steep scramble up the mountain's flank will bring hikers to the foot of the glacier, which lies at the heart of Shangri-la, according to the glossiest of the tourist brochures...
DIED. REGINE CAVAGNOUD, 31, world champion high-speed skier; after colliding with a German coach while training on a glacier in Innsbruck, Austria. Cavagnoud won last year's super-G World Cup and was third in the World Cup overall. She was considered a top contender for France in the 2002 Winter Olympics...
...down into the fearsome gorge of the mighty Sutlej River as it rushes down from Tibet. The hike can only be done in early summer after the snows melt and before the monsoon turns the mountains to mud. On the other side of the pass, trekkers must traverse a glacier after being linked together with ropes. We safely slid the last 200 m to the bottom, but our stores, which the porters launched after us, smashed into the rocks below with a crunch that could only mean we had had our last egg breakfast. On another occasion, we were hauled...