Richard Feidler

So I went with a group of friends.

We went to what was then Burma and we went up to Mandalay and Pagan and it was a great trip, but we all caught dysentery badly.

So we ended up going to Calcutta, very, very sick.

And I was left behind because I was sick for quite a while.

and lost a lot of weight.

And then I got the train and then the bus up to Kathmandu.

And I was carrying speed decks, I think they called it in those days.

I always had drugs on me.

And we got caught in this landslide, had to stay overnight in the bus.

The local came in with some chai in those little clay pots.

I'm thinking to myself, I really shouldn't drink this.

I really shouldn't drink this.

But I was so thirsty, I drank it.

And the next morning, blood in my stools.

I knew I had diarrhea again.

So I dropped a few of the deck speed to walk the 10 or 14 miles back to Kathmandu.

And then I was stuck in Kathmandu for another two weeks, really sick.

getting thinner all the time.

And then I decided to do the Jamison track, like in Plimsolls, like really, Kate.

It was about a day's walk with some Gurkhas who were fabulous.