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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Got lost on a 3 day hike with boyfriend (now DH) in remote part of South America. Unstable steep scrambling in gorge with glacial melt raging below. Thought we might die. I was exhausted and clinging to a rock so he went ahead for 5 mins to see if he could see a path out. Two hours later, it was almost dark and he had not returned. Thought he had fallen and was either dead or badly hurt. Backtracked to try and find a small clearing for my tent, thinking that in the morning I would have to attempt to find my own way out of the ravine and then find rescuers. In the darkness, he suddenly emerged from the opposite direction. He got lost. The fallen trees and scrub were so thick he couldn’t find me and the roar of the water below meant we could not hear each other when calling out. A couple of hairy moments the next day, but we eventually got out. [/quote]

Incredible![/quote]

Gawd, it’s dredging up other memories aside from our terrible hiking trip. Like when we didn’t anchor a rented motor boat properly off a tiny barren uninhabited ‘island’ in Sicily. Looked up from our heart to heart on the beach and couldn’t see our boat. Spotted it drifting away on the current in the distance and we both jumped in and started swimming after it. Fortunately, another boat saw what happened and stopped our boat so we could catch up. We were not fast swimmers and could easily have drowned.

Another time we (4 young women and 1 guy) were in a 4WD on a steep jungle road through the highlands of Papua New Guinea and were stopped by a ‘police checkpoint’. About 8 guys, some shirtless, bleary eyed from being stoned on betel nut, machetes, maybe one wore a semblance of a uniform. I still remember the feeling in the pit of my stomach.[/quote]

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