Young summer trekkers can gear up for their uphill ordeal with a spot of training.

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		</script> </DIV><p class='TableClas'>Summer camp: an inescapable annual ritual to which we all were bundled off, together with a host of unfamiliar faces. Unceremoniously thrown into the &#34rough and tough&#34 of things, we huffed and puffed our way through. 
</p><p class='TableClas'>In retrospect, a few sessions of pre-camp training to prepare for the sudden adventure wouldn&#39;t have hurt. Over the past few years, IAMAS (International Academy of Mountaineering and Allied Sports) has been doing exactly that 

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