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  • She kept a journal on each stage of the 5 day expedition , which included the good experiences with new found friends as well as the horrors of long-drop toilets, minimal washing facilities, extreme temperatures, complete physical exhaustion, and other altitude related symptoms experienced by her team as they forged their seemingly endless trek up the mountain.

    C. M. Rubin: Attitude C. M. Rubin 2011

  • She kept a journal on each stage of the 5 day expedition , which included the good experiences with new found friends as well as the horrors of long-drop toilets, minimal washing facilities, extreme temperatures, complete physical exhaustion, and other altitude related symptoms experienced by her team as they forged their seemingly endless trek up the mountain.

    C. M. Rubin: Attitude C. M. Rubin 2011

  • As a foreigner in New Zealand very many years later and roughing it, a local explained that a "chiotte" is sometimes called "the long-drop" -- honest!

    se tromper - French Word-A-Day 2008

  • So that'll be recycled yurts and long-drop earth closets - and not dozens and dozens of GeorgVictorBethan divorce boxes with a bit of extra wadding in the loft, and a compost bin behind the garage with the Mondeo in it.

    Road to Perdition Peter Ashley 2008

  • White ladies had access to the relative luxury of a long-drop toilet attached to the back of the building.

    Let The Dead Lie Malla Nunn 2010

  • White ladies had access to the relative luxury of a long-drop toilet attached to the back of the building.

    Let The Dead Lie Malla Nunn 2010

  • As a foreigner in New Zealand very many years later and roughing it, a local explained that a "chiotte" is sometimes called "the long-drop" -- honest!

    se tromper - French Word-A-Day 2008

  • He is dead keen, so he didn't hear the words like: altitude sickness, malaria, diarrhoea, long-drop toilets, lecture style lessons, no textbooks.

    Archive 2006-10-01 Karyn Romeis 2006

  • He is dead keen, so he didn't hear the words like: altitude sickness, malaria, diarrhoea, long-drop toilets, lecture style lessons, no textbooks.

    The flat world? Hardly! Karyn Romeis 2006

  • After overhearing the adults discussing the “digusting state of the long-drop” the only toilet in miles he refused to go near it for the two weeks we were there.

    chocolate 2006

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