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Old 06-09-2007, 04:20 PM
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G'day Max

Having seen the night sky From Everest base camp, Tibet, at an altitude of 5200m I can vouch for the quality and transparency of the skies. The sky was so dark and pristine you could barely make out the patten of bright constallations like Orion. I am sure I was seeing stars well past the 7th magnitude easily.

Oh by the way if you aclimatise slowly you probably don't need oxygen (I never used it and I'm a smoker) and the beer tastes fantastic on the roof of the world

Best of luck with your project,
Mick.
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