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 years backI used to go picking acorns atop a local hill (that's the kind of thing we do in autmun in Wales) to provide fodder for the farmer's pigs.
Needless to say, this sort of activity is about as entertaining as cutting your own eyes when you're trying to do it with a hangover and in the full knowledge that your mate has a playstation and Tekken 2 in his backpack. Knowing my house was nearby, we (3 of us) decided to ditch the tree-hugging acorn-picking hippies and take a 'shortcut' back to mine.
I knew it was only a straight line we had to travel in, but this meant crossing shitty streams on flimsy logs, negotiating an actual silage pit that nearly killed us and ended with me jumping over a ditch and losing my balance leaving me teetering on the edge of a 6 foot drop with a freezing turd infested stream at the bottom and the only thing to grab onto to maintain my balance was a fully charged electric fence....
my howls echoed through the valleys...
apologies for length and smell, it's my first time...
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BlueHaze Chutney. All good., Mon 11 Sep 2006, 15:58,
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