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| A Mountain Climbing Expedition | |
| By babar | ||||||||||
| 30 March 2005 | ||||||||||
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Just something I wrote for fun. I am proud of the basic idea, but I am
sure there are going to be many "literary errors". Hence, I posted it
here. Hopefully someone can offer suggestions to help me make it more
readable and better flowing. **After seeing all the comments** Nice to see so many people enjoyed it. You have convinced me into writing a longer piece, but it will be a while before I can work on it. We had arrived. We set up camp at the base of the great Mt. Gilihwantaro. Our mission was to make contact with the remote mountain tribe of the Boosi n'Kaka. This tribe was rumoured to have discovered the 392 uses of goat milk. We were hoping to befriend them and gain access to their unique, but vast library of information. My team consisted of myself as the leader; Gogo Yaki, a linguistic expert who was the only non-tribesman to speak the language of the Boosi n'Kakans; Professor Lee Chee, a learned botanist, who's knowledge we were hoping to trade for information on goat milk; and two professional mountain climbers, who had climbed mountains numerous times, without however looking for remote mountain tribes. At the base we procured the services of three locals. They agreed to guide us with their knowledge of the area, as well as carry our luggage, in exchange for eight hours of internet time using our satellite equipment and laptop. Our other luggage consisted of 350 highly distasteful "NRG Bars", which claimed to keep you hunger-free for one day; a water boiling and purification kit; four highly portable tents; and a goat, foreign to the region, which we were hoping to provide as a gift to the tribe. As we wished to start the climb during daylight, we retired to our tents. When we awoke the next morning, we discovered that the three locals we had employed had fled along with most of our luggage. All they had left -unsurprisingly- were 349 NRG bars. Not wishing to look like complete fools, we decided to continue our mission. Thankfully, our climbing equipment had not been stolen, mainly due to the fact that it had been in the tents with our professional mountain climbers. _______TWO WEEKS LATER_________ Our team was in disarray. The mountain climbing experts were hugely disgruntled. They had found out that while they had been forced to eat NRG bars day after day, Gogo Yaki and the professor had been feasting on the local foliage, which they had told the mountain climbers was poisonous. Surprisingly, despite these divisions, we had progressed quite far, and were nearing the area of the Boosi n'Kakan sightings. I foolishly attempted healing the divisions, but aggravated them further. Soon the mountain climbers were involved in a full fledged battle against the linguistic expert and botanist. Crampons, hooked ropes, NRG bars, and multilingual insults were flying through the air. I silently backed away to a safe distance. As I left, the botanist was applying poisonous paste to his crampons, and the linguistic expert had just finished portuguese, and was warming up with pashto insults. I returned to the site of the battle after the cries had died down, only to discover that everyone had died, either from impalement by hooked ropes and poisoned crampons, or by stuffing of NRG bars into sensitive orifices. None of the equipment was in usable condition. I was alone, stranded halfway up a mountain. Suddenly, I spied the goat. Exploding with inspiration, I jumped on it's back, and rode straight down the mountain. SALVATION!
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