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May 9, 1970

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a reporter at large

ALTITUDE: 150 TO 29,028 II-SOMEWALK GOING

Jeremy Bernstein

REPORTER AT LARGE about Nepal. Writer & friends go on a trek through the back country of Nepal to the base of Mt. Everest. Gives history of the highest …