The ferry dropped us off ay Check Keng pier and we set off along the McLehose trail (very nice man the best Governor of the Colony,ever.), or part of it since it runs right through the whole of the SAR. At this point it is all concreted, a Skoosh thinks we, the jolly walkers.What our intrepid leader neglected to impress upon us was the reality of a 4 kilometer trek rising to over 160 meters.
When the Chinese put a path up a mountain that's exactly what they do...straight up and through between two mountains Nam She Tsim (Sharps Peak) at 468m hardly half a munro and Tain Mun Shan at 370m barely a boil on the landscape.
We were put right in our place when we were being overtaken by a variety of nationals, ages and sex as our sherpa RG waited paitiently on our hirpling, groaning bodies to make the ascent.
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