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Suzanna Pillay
New Straits Times
11-22-2003
A cuppa up in Annapurna
Byline: Suzanna Pillay
Edition: The City Advertiser; 2*
Section: Travel
Memo: (STF) - Tea is all the sweeter and the bond of friendship stronger when

FOR the Yam Cha Club, when it comes to trekking to the Annapurna base camp, situated 4,130m above sea level in Nepal, having friends in high places really helps.

The idea for the informal club of friends, comprising retirees in their 50s and 60s, took shape at the foot of Petaling Jaya's Gasing Hills on July 6, when friends and mountain trekking buffs Robert Ong, Joe Choo and ...

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