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	<title>The Elephant Cloud &#187; Nepal</title>
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	<description>Namaste</description>
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		<title>Yeti Airlines</title>
		<link>http://elephantcloud.net/2008/06/yeti-airlines/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jun 2008 14:30:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Darlene Nastansky]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[May 2008, we left for Everest in a cramped jet built for 15, including the crew, and endured a harrowing 35 minutes to Lukla Airport. Built on an incline, the 900ft mountain slope runway decelerates the plane to a screeching halt and within an hour, it is reloaded, circling around for takeoff. The nose lowers [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Chitwan National Park</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 May 2008 16:32:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jay Wright]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I came to see the rhinos and we trekked thru grasslands and jungle forest to find them. In the grasses, which are higher than me at this time of year, the guide said we’d notice movement of large animals by the rustling. Yet it was the still grass of animals lying in wait that concerned [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>I really, really want to see a rhino</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 May 2008 16:35:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jay Wright]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ten bucks for the tourist bus, luxury non-stop with air con. Or, maybe, no aircon. And maybe just one stop: to kick us off. The students were pissed. Three months ago the government promised them books, pens, and paper. Three months later, they still had none and it was the week before exams. So they [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Celebrity</title>
		<link>http://elephantcloud.net/2008/05/celebrity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 May 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jay Wright]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Peter Habelar was the first man to summit Everest without oxygen. He did it with legendary climber, Reinhold Messner, and the night before our first attempt to fly home, we showed him how to play pool. He’s a much better mountaineer. The next morning, after everyone else flew out of Lukla, we sat in an [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Popcorn at fourteen thousand feet</title>
		<link>http://elephantcloud.net/2008/05/popcorn-at-fourteen-thousand-feet/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2008 15:58:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jay Wright]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Getting down is the hardest part and we were aggressive. So much so, we broke our Sherpa and had to pay him double that day. On the second descent day we nursed our ailments from the previous day’s twelve hour hike with dal baat and chang (the rice wine). We drank a lot of chang [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Ringing Everest&#8217;s Doorbell</title>
		<link>http://elephantcloud.net/2008/05/ringing-everests-doorbell/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 May 2008 15:54:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jay Wright]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On May 10th, the twelfth anniversary of Jon Kraukauer’s Everest summit, we found ourselves in the airport heading to Lukla and the trek to Everest’s south side. Just before boarding we grabbed a copy of the book. Nine days later, visiting the lodges and familiar with the trails the books expeditions took, we marched into [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Prayer Wheels</title>
		<link>http://elephantcloud.net/2008/05/prayer-wheels/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 16:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jay Wright]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I first intended to go to India a few years ago, but instead fell hard for a remarkable woman and cut my trip short. But it wasn’t meant to be and two strong personalitie soon found themselves frustrating one another. One year later I was again dreaming of India. In the Khumbu Himalaya of Nepal, prayer flags, [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Hike, eat, sleep and repeat</title>
		<link>http://elephantcloud.net/2008/05/hike-eat-sleep-and-repeat/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 15:46:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jay Wright]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yaks perform only above ten thousand feet; the cows below sixty five hundred. They cross bred them to fill in the gap and the mixed breed works inbetween. How is it I’m expected to function at all these elevations? I’m not even from around here. Acclimitization days we hike packless, generally climbing 1200 feet or [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Completely Unprepared</title>
		<link>http://elephantcloud.net/2008/05/completely-unprepared/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 14:52:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jay Wright]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Compared to India, Kathmandu is almost a cheat. Crossing the street is almost easy. There are a couple stop lights, the occasional sidewalk, and not a single sign of livestock. Thats not to say you couldn&#8217;t get yourself killed, but with no cow patties to hop, no hagglers to dodge, and temperatures back in the [&#8230;]]]></description>
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