The Worst Journey in the WorldAspley Cherry Garrard was the youngest member of the Scott Polar Expedition when he and two others lost their tent to the winds of a night-time snowstorm. They spent hours in temperatures below -70°F stumbling about the ice floes hoping they'd bump into it as it was their only hope of survival.
OK, so that was bad, but we reckon you've had worse. We know how hard you lot are.
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chthonic, Thu 7 Sep 2006, 12:40)
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Worst journeyA few years back I was driving home alone late at night from a gig in a totally unknown part of the country. I stopped for petrol, which involved unlocking the filler cap with the ignition key. The key stuck in the filler cap and a passing motorist stopped to help. The key snapped off. Eventually I got the end of the key out and got the car started by selotaping the two halves of the key together. If I had stalled the car at any point on the long journey home (a fairly likely occurrance given the age and state of the car and the fact that I didn't have a clue where I was going) I could never have got it going again. God knows how, but I made it.
Another time in this same car the heater packed up in sub-zero conditions (again late at night after a gig). I was woken by the car bouncing off the central reservation at 3am.
Fortunately my foot had slipped off the accelerator and no real harm was done.
Got a new car.
(, Mon 11 Sep 2006, 13:13, Reply)
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