Mountain sisters

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Back in the spring of 1972 I was trekking up to Everest base camp in Nepal and came across a young English couple coming back down the track. I was on my own so enjoyed a few minutes conversation in my native language before continuing our separate ways. In October of that year I was back in the UK to start a post-graduate teaching course at Bangor University in North Wales. There I met and began dating a girl who later told me that her sister had also been trekking in Nepal earlier in the year. This seemed too weird to contemplate but when we all met up at her parents it was confirmed that I had indeed met her sister in the depths of the HImalaya in the spring......
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Date submitted:Sat, 14 Jan 2012 10:45:15 +0000Coincidence ID:3872

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Sat, 14/01/2012 - 11:04am

Some years ago my daughter [who lives in Australia] was at Base Camp, Everest, when three young English men came in. It turned out they were Firemen doing a sponsored trek, coming from the same area of Nottingham where we live, one of whom I used to teach!