| 1 | Violent winds threatened2 to shove the climbers off into oblivion. | |
| 2 | Vast areas are arid or semi-desert, and virtually uninhabited. | |
| 3 | Vast areas are arid or semi-desert, and virtually uninhabited . | |
| 4 | It's a wasteland near my farm for 30 years ago. | |
| 5 | These were the men and women of Unit 8023, a special detachment charged with conducting atomic tests at Lop Nur in Xinjiang province, a place of utter desolation and - until now - complete secrecy. |