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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Fleeing from TokyoLast December I went with a large group of Korean punks to Tokyo for a punk festival. I went with my now wife as well, who wanted to stay a few extra days to visit a friend of hers living in Japan.
Everything went down well and we had a great time. Come the day we had to leave, and my woman was ditched by her friend. At that moment I was already en route to Narita Airport (the worst airport I've ever had the displeasure of going through outside the US). She ended up in Shibuya, stranded with all her luggage.
Some old man tripped over her suitcase. He got up and started yelling at her. She's Korean so we can forgive him for not realising she doesn't understand his language. Less forgiveable, he smacked her in the forehead and started walking away.
She decided she wouldn't allow that, so she came up to him and smacked him on the head with an empty plastic bottle. The old man went down again, and this time she ran for it.
She took a train to the airport where she missed my flight by about half an hour. She was really afraid the Tokyo police would be looking out for the Korean girl who assaulted an elderly Japanese man. In the end she spent 24 hours in the airport and caught a flight the next day.
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