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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A few...Recently arrived home after 3 months in India with my wonderful girlfriend Cheryl.
Below is a list of things we encountered.
Things we got attacked by:
A pack of wild street dogs
A monkey (armed with coconut)
Millions of mosquito's
Ants. Ants also stole our food. (think diagonal trail of ants from floor to ceiling. Imagine watching your food travel vertically up a wall into a crack in the ceiling).
Things we survived:
2 minor fires (one in a bamboo beach hut and one in a guesthouse)
1 road crash (Me braking too hard, sending me and Cheryl flying off the bike. Luckily she landed on me and I grinded hip first along twenty feet of rough indian road. Then the bike landed on my feet.)
Several potential crashes (NEVER, EVER TAKE AN INDIAN BUS FROM SHIMLA TO DHARAMASALA! - imagine hurtling around mountain bends at sixty miles an hour with no crash barriers and having no idea if another bus is coming your way!)
Delhi belly. Lost about two and a half stone of body weight through some pretty intense shitting sessions. Only vomited once though!
*The most daunting thing about india was the roads... Especially when you look out of the window and see the remains of other buses and lorries crashed up, abandoned and rusted in the baking heat...
Beautiful place though... great people too!
(, Fri 8 Sep 2006, 2:03, Reply)
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