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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Caught a double-decker bus to college onceMid jan, black ice everywhere. The bus drives around Swansea picking up students, and I'm upstairs at the front of the bus, looking outside. In fairness, when Swansea is covered in snow it looks lovely; mainly because it hides the dirt.
So we're on the final stretch, having just travelled up the side of Townhill (a dive area), and heading down the other side of it to Tycoch college. At 1 mile an hour. With the handbrake on. At an angle.
Halfway down, the driver announced for us all to jump off the bus. He somehow managed to drift the bus onto a patch of grass on a pavement, causing the bus to gain traction and stop. We all chose this oppertune moment to leggit, and half of us ended up walking/sliding down the hill to college instead. The bus was stuck there for another hour, before it was safe enough to move it.
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Jeccius Steam Borderlands 2 junkie, Fri 8 Sep 2006, 9:48,
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