Well, no expedition to the Northwest Territories of Pakistan on the Afghan border would be complete without first having tramped the streets of London in search of equipment that may, or may not be required...
"Took 3 hours and several visits to all 3 shops in Covent Garden. A mostly successful trip with the exception of gaiters! Bought bargain pair of Yeti Attack for 30 quid - too small! had to take old ones.
Also, not a big selection of waterproof trews.
Got good advice in Ellis Brigham and cool shades!"
Footnotes:
I bought a very nice Lowe Alpine jacket that was big enough to wear my down jacket underneath expecting Himalayan cold to bite to the bone. Pakistan was nothing like that - most of the time I was in just my Helly Hansen top sweating away as we slogged across open moraine of climbed relentless slopes. I since gave the jacket to my Dad and he is over the moon with it :-)
Why Insh'Alla..?
- Pete
- Los Angeles, California, United States
- The phrase translates into English as "God willing" or "If it is God's will". I heard this a lot on this trip, and I said it a lot too. I brought the phase home with me and used it for a while in the UK. Sadly time drained the phrase out of my system and the meaning and spirituality of the phase was lost. But I did feel it for a while, and it was a good connection with an almost fatalistic approach to life. We need to have too much control in modern 'civilisation', it's nice sometimes to be able to be free of that and just let things happen 'as God wills it'...
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