FAR-FLUNG: How We Tried to Climb the Highest Peaks in the Seven Seas

"In an extraordinary twist, however, another band of natives, purporting to be a police force, was going to protect us from such an attack, using machine guns and tear gas, all while somewhat hypoxic, as we tried to climb a mountain just under 15,000 feet high. It's like something someone would make up trying to write an adventure fiction novel, except it wasn't made up."

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