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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Ugandan Chocolate...Winding up through the mountains in Uganda, feeling pretty sick at all the twists and turns in this hot, rustheap of a bus.
Suddenly I'm gagging as I get the strongest whiff of shit filling my nostrils. I figure it's probably the livestock in the fields outside the bus. Funny thing is the smell gets stronger when I turn my head INSIDE the bus.
I then realise that the baby in its mother's arms next to me has shat itself quite spectacularly. Mother looks non-plussed and unsure of how to proceed.
In true chivalrous style, all the Ugandan men have moved to the front of the bus and are pointing and laughing.
I reach inside my rucksack and pull out my emergency bog roll and hand it to mum.
As if this happens all the time, she calmly takes my bogroll without a word and starts the arse wiping process.
This continues for 40 miles.
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String Theory sometimes feeds the sparrows too, Tue 12 Sep 2006, 15:01,
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