As I reluctantly trudged my way further up the misty mountain towards the western ridge above Chele La, hundreds of large white Darchor prayer flags fluttered in the fierce winds that buffeted the exposed slopes.

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For more than 100 years, paper mills were the economic engine of northern New Hampshire, and by the 1970s there were four mills in a 25-mile radius in Coos County, a string of small towns with misty mountain views and moose-crossing road signs.

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Werner also found time to visit Hangzhou, Shanghai's mirror-lake-and-misty-mountain version of the Hamptons ( Escapes), and its ethereal Amanresort, Amanfayun.

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Many of the pictures, though, were large-scale canvases of misty lakes, pagodas and jagged mountain tops, portraits of cheeky Chinese boys or archly posing Chinese beauties.

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