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One of a kind on top of the world

We’ve planned it for months and now here I am, with daughter Tiffany, and a group of friends. It’s just after 3pm on October 3, 2009, and Everest, called the “mother” by Tibetans (Mount Qomolangma) rears up ahead of us. She is gleaming white and silver, seductive yet somehow forbidding.

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Kate Turkington is one of South Africa’s best-known broadcasters, travellers and travel writers. From Tibet to Thailand, Patagonia to Peru, Kashmir to Kathmandu, St Helena to St Albans, the Arctic Circle to Antarctica, like Shakespeare’s Puck she has girdled the world. She continues to travel when and where she can but Johannesburg is home where she writes and blogs in print and on social media.

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