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Blogs Liberty and Power Strippers with Altitude

Sep 29, 2007

Strippers with Altitude

by Liberty and Power

Nepal wants to ban nudity on Everest. The irony is that this is where trouserless-peaking started with George Mallory, claims regular naked climber Hank Wangford.

It seems to me to be a case of Liberty against Power.