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Notes From Afar, The Hottest Place On Earth

I gazed out across the plains from my vant­age point by a mil­it­ary watch-tower at the east­ern edge of the Ethiopian high­lands. I was about to leave the famil­iar crazi­ness of Amhara and to cross the Afar desert, the site of the hot­test air tem­per­at­ure ever recor­ded, and the home of the nomadic Afar tribes. [...]
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