1.0 link 136552 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alex-pasternack/aboard-the-highest-train_b_136552.html Even after less than a handful of hours of sound sleep, I awoke with a start just before my alarm sounded. Suddenly, the vents began to emit a steady woosh -- oxygen being piped in to assist our breathing at some 2700 meters above sea level. When I looked down from my bunk
bleary-eyed, the T27 train from Beijing to Lhasa was still rolling through black night. I had awoken for the sunset, but then realized my mistake. Tibet,...

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