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Jamaica's Blue Mountain Mystery
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Clinton West, right, often spends days in what many consider impenetrable bush in the Blue Mountains. He has stumbled across Nanny Town several times during pig-hunting forays into the jungle and now leads the occasional tourist to the abandoned fort. He and his son, Ainsley West, stand at the entrance to John Crow National Park, east of the Blue Mountains.
"We didn't even try to go to Nanny Town. Imagine trying to hike 40 or 50 miles [65 or 80 kilometers] through jungle—no trail, not even really knowing where you're going. I think Clinton probably just stumbled on to it.
"His son [Ainsley] was painfully shy. We really couldn't understand each other, it's such a different dialect.
"It's mostly banana farmers down here. I think they piece together a living in Jamaica. Maybe for sport they go out pig hunting."
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