Metropolitan Guadalajara, population four and a half million, sprawls across a sunny, mile-high plateau.

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Numerous trails climb the 1, 000m-high plateau but the most popular is Platteklip Gorge, a steep, 3km walk that begins near the lower cable-car station.

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One March day, as soon as she had finished her housework, Jeanne Bousque headed off toward the Pelgrin property, on the high plateau above the village.

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Summer visitors see grazing reindeer and Sami camps, and in winter a special bus follows a snow plow up the final eight miles to reach the 1, 000-foot high plateau where, bracing against the winds, you get to stand beside the iconic North Cape globe for photographic proof positive that you have literally stood at the top of the world.

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Experts date this tale as far back as the Bronze Age, when warmer climates meant people could survive high up on the Alpine plateau.

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Climb to the top via the stunning Valle di Femmina Morta, (Dead Woman Valley) a wide, generous plateau more than 2, 500m high.

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In the north-west and centre of the Tibetan plateau Dr Xu and his team found that particularly high levels of soot had fallen on the glaciers during the 1950s.

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Near field communications (NFC) is among the leaders with very high expectations (Y-axis) and a (5-10)-year cycle before a plateau.

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