coloured fibre of spinnable quality green husk of 10 to 12 months old coconuts is ideally suitable. india and sri lanka are the main areas where the fibres from the husk (termed 'coir') are extracted by traditional methods for the commercial production of a variety of products (brushes and brooms, ropes...
"i chugged my way up and down the mountain mostly alone. the tricky parts all had fixed ropes. there was talk of a second summit team, but at the end there were only doug robinson and me interested in going higher. we met up at the highest camp and had an almost perfect summit day followed by a slow,...