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	<description>On her next adventure in Islamabad</description>
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		<title>The Honeymoon</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My amazing friend and Ironman World Champion Chrissie Wellington talked to a journalist about a bonkers bike trip we did in Argentina a year ago. It was actually the honeymoon of our close friend Tina, who got married to Seba in Mendoza in November 2008. Tina, Chrissie, Helen and I used to bike together in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.billibierling.com/2010/02/19/the-honeymoon/</link>
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		<title>A Pakistani Wedding</title>
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If  you think Valentine’s Day is only big in the ‚Western World’ then you are wrong.  Here in Pakistan, people also make an effort to get married on this day, which  was established by Pope Gelasius I in AD 496.


 
On  Sunday, 14 February, our office took the opportunity to go [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.billibierling.com/2010/02/15/a-pakistani-wedding/</link>
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		<title>Where is your bicycle?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Those who know me from Kathmandu will know that I hardly ever – or rather never – leave the house without my bike. My two-wheeled companion is my best friend and I would not know how to get around Kathmandu, or as a matter of fact any other city in the world. My bike gives [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.billibierling.com/2010/01/31/where-is-your-bicycle/</link>
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		<title>Life is beautiful – but not all the time</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Those who know me also know my motto in life: Life is beautiful. However, in times like these, this motto is hard to believe and I sometimes wonder whether I can keep on saying it. Tragedies will always happen in our lives – they happen all over the world, however, we are often far away [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.billibierling.com/2010/01/20/life-is-beautiful-%e2%80%93-but-not-all-the-time/</link>
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		<title>Drama on Discovery Everest Series</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Apparently the series, the Discovery Channel shot on our Everest expedition, has been aired in the States. There are five episodes and our team, led by Russell Brice, is on episode five.
It is weird not having seen it as a lot of people have contacted me saying that they had no idea that my summit [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.billibierling.com/2010/01/10/drama-on-discovery-everest-series/</link>
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		<title>Happy New Year and Apologies</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is just a quick note to say happy New Year to everyone and to apologise for the malfunctioning of my website. I guess it also needed a rest over the Christmas period but it is back up and running and waiting to be filled with more interesting news.
I guess it was probably a good [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.billibierling.com/2010/01/04/happy-new-year-and-apologies/</link>
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		<title>Another women’s race won – but again ‘prizeless’</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sunday was another big event for the sporty folks in Islamabad. The Canadian Club in the Diplomatic Enclave had organised a fun race comprising a 3km, 5km and 10km race. A few friends of mine and I took part in the event and this time around it went through and was not cancelled because of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.billibierling.com/2009/12/08/another-women%e2%80%99s-race-won-%e2%80%93-but-again-%e2%80%98prizeless%e2%80%99/</link>
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		<title>Pakistan fails to mourn Lino Lacedelli’s death</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last Friday, another piece of mountaineering history died when Lino Lacedelli passed away in his Italian hometown of Cortina d’Ampezzo. Lacedelli, who died of a heart condition at the age of 83, was one of the first two men to conquer K2, Pakistan’s highest peak and the second highest mountain in the world.
I was surprised [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.billibierling.com/2009/11/23/pakistan-fails-to-mourn-lino-lacedelli%e2%80%99s-death/</link>
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		<title>A week of incredible contrast</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After having written about normalcy in times of war last week, this week I went to a camp, where internally displaced people from Swat, Buner, Malakand and Shangla Districts are currently living. And I guess, for them life is everything but normal at the moment. We went to Jalozai Camp just outside of Peshawar, the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.billibierling.com/2009/11/15/a-week-of-incredible-contrast/</link>
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		<title>Charity away from home</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This article highlights the area around Manaslu, the eighth highest mountain in the world, which seemed to have been forgotten by developing aid &#8211; until now.
Click here for the article.
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		<link>http://www.billibierling.com/2009/11/08/charity-away-from-home/</link>
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