Altitude Sickness.
From: The National Interest
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Date: 9/22/2001
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Author: Starr, S. Frederick
Poverty and Violence in the Mountains
AT THE checkout counter of my grocer is an attractive magazine for New Age shoppers entitled Shambhala Sun. This evocative name refers to the mythical mountain realm of the Tibetan Buddhists, a hidden place symbolizing purity, truth and wisdom. It is also what James Hilton had in mind when he created the land of Shangri-La in his 1933 novel, Lost Horizons. As it happens, just last summer I was camping on the Kazakstan--Russian border in the ...
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