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Wild Mountain - Beginnings

The Essay Nature in China
Episode 3 of 4

Series in which writer and climber Robert Macfarlane explores the state of the natural environment in China.

He travels to the mountainous heart of China to visit the holy peak of Minya Konka.

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Wed 15 Jul 2009 23:00
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