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In my studies, I've read how it was nothing for a family, toting their wares, in the early 19th C to walk for 50 miles a day for several weeks.

Page 29: The five-hundred-mile march took over two months and followed the ancient Jong-lam, the great trade route which stretches across Tibet from east to west. For much of the way ..., with an average altitude of 15,000 feet.

Made of sterner stuff back then?

George Hill is an amazing chap. He's just talked the Bolsheviks into handing the Romanian Crown Jewels over to him, so he can transport them back to Romania. This a first-hand account: incredible.

Chapter VI - About one o’clock in the morning we halted for sleep . All of us were pretty well exhausted , and I set the alarm in my wrist - watch for three o’clock and slept with my head upon it .

How's about that, then?

I'm in awe!

I'm struggling with it.

I'm ploughing through it. It's more an academic paper; and for me, untrodden ground.