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Extreme Trifle: April 2011
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WARNING: may contain nuts. Tuesday, April 12. Wrong Way Round - Himalaya. From the desk of Extreme Trifle HQ (96 ft above sea level). In mountaineering circles "Touching the Void". Is the stuff of legend. A story of man versus mountain and triumph over adversity. Inspired by this epic achievement, Extreme Trifle are taking on the Himalayas in their latest instalment of the Wrong Way Round series. Welcome to "Touching the Cloth". From "base camp" in Manali we will head north and immediately start an ascen...
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Extreme Trifle: December 2011
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WARNING: may contain nuts. Monday, December 19. It's scorching. Let's do coffee. Location: Imilchil, Middle Atlas Mountains. The plan today was to cross the High Atlas mountains all the way to the mouth of the Dades Gorge. The “road” had long since ended and the path through the mountains was nothing more than a dirt track rarely used by vehicles. From here on in “lunch” no longer meant freshly grilled kebabs, fresh fruit and freshly squeezed fruit juice. We now had to carry food impervio...Kaspars had u...
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Extreme Trifle: Which bit of "bring the tyre levers" did you not understand?
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WARNING: may contain nuts. Tuesday, December 13. Which bit of "bring the tyre levers" did you not understand? Wrong Way Round Sahara - Episode 2. By comparison to say India, it was actually fairly well organised chaos as opposed to total chaos but even so it pays to keep your wits about you. Every set of traffic lights was like the start of a Moto GP race, only with slightly more riders and a lot more donkeys. It became clear Charlie was now having a problem maintaining “speed” and was starti...To the to...
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Extreme Trifle: Sun block. "Check". First aid kit. "Check". Inflatable guitars. "Check"
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WARNING: may contain nuts. Friday, January 27. Sun block. "Check". First aid kit. "Check". Inflatable guitars. "Check". To the trained eye heatstroke is an acute condition of hype. Thermia caused by prolonged exposure to excessive heat. To the untrained eye it means a person with no sense of humour who is generally useless. So it was only when Greg lost his sense of humour that we knew something was not quite right. Had turned in to a stretch of erg. And the soft sand would be ideal for sleeping on. ...
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Extreme Trifle: "It's definitely left. Or right"
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WARNING: may contain nuts. Friday, January 20. It's definitely left. Or right". A wrong turn is rarely more than an inconvenience. In the desert it's the difference between reaching your destination or running out of water, dying a slow dehydrating death before being torn to pieces by hyenas and picked clean by vultures. So here we are with a choice of going left or right having all forgotten what the locals told us. If Chuck Norris was a wind, he'd be the Chergui. He said. We didn't know what swim m...
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Extreme Trifle: January 2012
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WARNING: may contain nuts. Friday, January 27. Sun block. "Check". First aid kit. "Check". Inflatable guitars. "Check". To the trained eye heatstroke is an acute condition of hype. Thermia caused by prolonged exposure to excessive heat. To the untrained eye it means a person with no sense of humour who is generally useless. So it was only when Greg lost his sense of humour that we knew something was not quite right. Had turned in to a stretch of erg. And the soft sand would be ideal for sleeping on. ...
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Extreme Trifle: October 2009
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WARNING: may contain nuts. Friday, October 2. Ups, downs, and round and rounds. All great adventures have their highs and lows. Those moments of jubilation and those moments of utter despair. The great thing about these moments is that in the end they all become highs, it just takes a little time to appreciate them. It may not seem like it at the time but the breakdowns, arguments, border problems and bouts of rampant diarrhoea. Then the school boy excitement of meeting up with Charley Boorman. At the Lo...
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Extreme Trifle: It's scorching. Let's do coffee.
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WARNING: may contain nuts. Monday, December 19. It's scorching. Let's do coffee. Location: Imilchil, Middle Atlas Mountains. The plan today was to cross the High Atlas mountains all the way to the mouth of the Dades Gorge. The “road” had long since ended and the path through the mountains was nothing more than a dirt track rarely used by vehicles. From here on in “lunch” no longer meant freshly grilled kebabs, fresh fruit and freshly squeezed fruit juice. We now had to carry food impervio...Kaspars had u...
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