July 3, 1966
Day 4: Dieter and Duane awakened in the morning trembling from the cold, and helped each other stand up. They continued along a creek, which narrowed into a slippery, rocky gully, over which they half-walked and half-crawled. Blocked by a pile of bamboo in the creek bed, they struggled to get around it. When the gully came to an abrupt end, so did the creek. Facing a steep divide between cloud-covered mountaintops, they decided to hike over it with the hope there would be a valley with a river on the other side. The ascent, steeper than it looked, was covered by thousands of years of jungle growth.
(To be continued tomorrow…)
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