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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Ok, your motivation...You're 17, it's your first time on a plane, you're alone, it's from UK to Australia.
It's also four days after 9/11.
Think machine-gun wielding Arab officers, crazy three-fingered Frenchmen trying to engage you in conversation, landings to make your nose bleed and an unspeakable stench that was the very arse of Beelzebub emanating from someplace unknown.
Yes.
More a case of sub-zero attitudes than sub-zero temperatures, but it does make you want to cry for your mum nonetheless.
(, Thu 14 Sep 2006, 13:07, Reply)
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