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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LAPD BluesA few years back I spent a working summer in California. I flew into LA, and on our first day there a bunch of us went to visit Hollywood (for the record, not very exciting).
On the bus back from Hollywood to our youth hostel near LAX, it suddenly stopped in the middle of the road. Surrounded by cop cars.
A voice came over a megaphone ordering us to put our hands on our heads and leave the bus 2 by 2.
As my turn came I got off the bus to find no less than 5 cops pointing guns right at me.
I crossed to the side of the road where another cop searched my bag. Turns out they'd had a report there was a man with a gun on the bus.
They didn't find anything, and they let us all back on. The driver who knew we were visitors, said to us "I promise this doesn't happen every day in LA".
We got the bus out of there to San Francisco that very same night.
(an overnight Greyhound - come to think of it that was a pretty nightmare journey too!)
(, Sun 10 Sep 2006, 19:28, Reply)
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