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I would love to go and see the Himalayan Mountain Kingdoms. There are very few left now. I would loved to have gone to Tibet and Nepal. And there are still parts of central Asia that are utterly unexplored.

David Attenborough

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David Attenborough
Age: 98
Born: 1926
Born: May 8
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