Anyonewantingtoclimbthesummitofoneof
theworld’shighestmountainswillmorethan
likelybeslowedbysomecongestionfirst.Ever
morepeopletraveltoNepaltoclimbMount
Everest.However,accomplishingthis
dangerousfeatisonlypossiblebetween
extremeweatherconditions,mostly
betweenMayandJune,whichmeans
thereisfrequentcongestionat
bottlenecks,andsometimesqueues
ofmorethan 200 people waiting to
getthrough.Santorini,Greece’smost
popularisland,ischaracterised
byitsclustersofwhite-washed
houses,someofwhichare
partiallydugintothevolcanic
rockwhileothersteeter
precariouslyontheedgeof
cliffsorplungehiggledy-
piggledydownthe
cliffsides.Withtheisland
hugelypopularamong
tourists,localsarepushing
authoritiestodealwith
thehugeinfluxesofday-
tripperswhoclogupthe
alreadytightspaces.Femalesquirrelsoften
havefiveyoungina
litter,whichmakesfora
tightsqueezeinthedrey
[squirrelnest].That’s
surelywhatthesefour
squirrelswerethinking
whentheyalldecidedto
takea peekatthe
outsideworld.Luckily
forthem,thefifthsibling
was napping.80 April 2020
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