This was followed by field visits by experts to assess the situation in the Dolo Ado refugee camp in the southeast of the country from 4 to 10 November and in the Fafen upper valley from 12 to 14 November ( see map).

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The woman was Catherine Nixon Cooke, who needed the boots because she was preparing to lead an Explorers Club expedition to Nepal's remote Upper Arun Valley.

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In the late 1950s, he led an expedition to the Upper Arun Valley to investigate whether the mysterious Yeti might be the missing link between modern humans and their primate ancestors.

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Just before midnight on May 26th, a herd of nearly 200 cows started out along an old track to Alpine pastures at 1, 300 metres within the Oasi in the Upper Sessera Valley.

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Syria contends that the late Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin agreed during lower-level peace talks that stalled in 1996 to return the Golan, a water-rich region that overlooks the upper Jordan River valley.

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That investment put Accel in the upper echelon of Silicon Valley venture capital firms.

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Chuck Schumer just put a tax bull's-eye on upper-income Manhattanites, and Barbara Boxer whacked Silicon Valley.

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Even upper-middle-class families in California's Silicon Valley are spending more modestly this summer, said mother-of-two Dowd.

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To fully experience the Douro Valley, however, head upstream to the Alto Douro (Upper Douro) wine region.

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The upper echelon of the pop-music touring business is, like Silicon Valley, dominated by a small number of enterprises: Lady Gaga, Madonna, U2, Jon Bon Jovi, Jay-Z, and a very few others.

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