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THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE 



Photograph by Vittorio Sella 



the; "no man's land" of the; timber-line; warfare; 



On the roof of the world, among the eternal snows of the Himalayas, even the most 

 intrepid tree combatant dare not stand against the heavy artillery of avalanche and the 

 ceaseless machine-gun fire of ice-storm. 



