Kirjoitin pari kuukautta sitten brittil\u00e4isest\u00e4 Charlie Wittmarcista, joka oli asettanut itselleen melkoisen haasteen.\u00a0H\u00e4n ui ensiksi 33 kilometri\u00e4 Englannin kanaalin yli\u00a0 Ranskaan noin 12 tunnissa. Siit\u00e4 Charlie nappasi fillarin alle ja l\u00e4hti polkemaan yli 14,000 kilometerin etappia kohti Intiaa.<\/p>\n
Reissussa sattuu ja tapahtuu, niin my\u00f6s Charlielle. H\u00e4n j\u00e4in ainakin kerran auton alle ja\u00a0tammikuun\u00a0blogissa\u00a0h\u00e4n kertoi menett\u00e4neens\u00e4 \u00f6deeman vuoksi hetkellisesti oikean silm\u00e4n n\u00e4k\u00f6ns\u00e4. T\u00e4ss\u00e4 kopio miehen kirjoituksesta:<\/p>\n
Then in Tibet, I broke. I was lying on a hard bed in a tiny shack that was located in an abandoned village in a remote section of the Tibetan Plateau. Outside my door there was a pack of wild dogs that I had seen cleaning up the corpses that are left behind by the villagers at the end of the tourist season. After suffering a cerebral edema a few days earlier, I had lost most of the vision in my right eye, and as I stared at the ceiling of the shack, there was only a small pinpoint of light. My heart had begun to beat irregularly and the pain between my legs had increased significantly in recent days, convincing me that I had somehow suffered a hernia. I was mentally, physically and financially bankrupt.<\/p>\n
Summa summarum…Mies oli \u00a0Tiibetiss\u00e4\u00a0niin romuna, ett\u00e4 h\u00e4n p\u00e4\u00e4tti l\u00e4hte\u00e4 kotiinsa parantelemaan haavojaan, mutta\u00a0h\u00e4n on palannut jo radalle lopettaakseen sen, mink\u00e4 aloittikin.<\/p>\n
Intiasta mies jatkaa jalkaisin matkaa kohti Mount Everesti\u00e4, jonka huipulle\u00a0Wittmarcin on tarkoitus kiivet\u00e4 eeppisen\u00a0reissunsa p\u00e4\u00e4tteeksi. Huh, t\u00e4m\u00e4n j\u00e4lkeen 20 kilsan lenkki tuntuu puistok\u00e4velylt\u00e4. T\u00e4ss\u00e4 miehen blogisivu.<\/p>\n