He brings me to the summit of a little mountain to take in a panorama of the bay and, with any luck, to spot some of Palawan's celebrity fauna: green sea turtles, dugongs, sharks, whale sharks and the world's most adorable ungulate, the Chihuahua-size Philippine mouse deer.

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Now whether it's some rocky island off the Canadian coast or a skewer summit of a Canadian mountain I don't know and that's what they're talking about behind the scenes.

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We parked just below the summit of the mountain and walked into the town through a gap in the low stone wall that surrounded it.

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The final day begins with a 2km trek north from the village of Arbel to the summit of Mount Arbel, an imposing mountain overlooking Lake Galilee, then heads 5km down to the small closed-off ruins of Migdal (biblical Magdala), thought to be the home of Mary Magdalene.

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This snow-capped volcano, scarcely visible behind a veil of mist, was Professor Lidenbrock's destination - the mountain where an ancient riddle spoke of a crater at the summit that leads to the centre of the Earth.

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Peter Legate, 38, a business manager from Lymington, Hampshire, was attempting to reach the summit of the world's highest mountain, the Foreign Office confirmed.

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