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“Addictions can be very, very bad but addiction itself is not bad.
It’s a case of what you’re addicted to.
You better live each day like it’s your last, ‘cos one day you’re going to be right”.
Ray Charles.
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You may at this point be saying WTF? If so …… good.
Your mind’s a sewer and as punishment, check out the rest of this page and then buy a of JK’s book. On second thoughts, buy 2.
In Jason’s book, Antarctica: A Different Adventure, he describes his trip to the very heart of the most inhospitable place on Earth …… Philadelphia.
That can't be right, let’s see, errrr it’s Antarctica.
- Polar groover hangs out washing.
With mountaineer Peter Hillary and mate Jason Veale, JK spent the toughest and most exhilarating days of his life tracing the steps of the great explorers of the ‘Heroic Age’, hauling sledges across the Horseshoe Valley on the edge of the Ellsworth Mountains.
- One of the guys after an argument.
This is a surprising place for Jason to find himself in, as he has a personal commitment to the horizontal lifestyle and his personal mantra has always been the Oz expression “She’ll be right”.
(For non-Australian’s, that means trusting in blind luck, mixed with child-like optimism).
But in the big A, JK found this fantasy approach would not suffice!
- Jason Veale in foreground. A young Saddam Hussein in background.
Reality hit from the beginning of the 9 month period of preparation, with its daunting exercise regime and then on to the ice itself, with its piercing polar winds, backbreaking sledging and horrific group farting while tent-bound.
- Veale on right telling Kimberley that this is no place to take a dump.
Enough of this gibberish, this really is a fine book and is very different (and better) than the vast majority exped efforts which are only readable if you were actually on the trip yourself and are in the photos to look tough to impress chicks.
- Veale & Hillary having gone insane.
In Antarctica: A Different Adventure, Jason shoots a mean pic and tells the story about some good guys on a great trip in a hell of a place.
But don’t totally fall for his line “I’m just a cold-weather bumbly”.
He’s actually been up Anconcagua and really high on Denali.
His site is www.sunburntcountry.net and search Google if you want to find tech stuff like the publisher, stockists etc. We don’t even know its cost but how much can it be?
It’s not like it’s a new paraglider.
- Hillary & Veale wishing they'd brought a stripper and an iPod.