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The place the Tibetans call the sacred source of the Mekong is a frozen river bed at an altitude of 17,000 feet on the Tibetan Plateau. In search of a campsite, our guide Meiga crosses the three feet of ice under which the westernmost headwaters of the Mekong trickle.

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