This effect was responsible for one of the coldest feelings I've ever felt in my life. I was hiking the Inca trail in Peru to Macchu Picchu with a tour group. The local porters that came with the group would set up tents at night and we would eat around a campfire under the most incredible blanket of stars I have ever seen. (Side note: Quechua, the local language spoken by the porters when they were not speaking Spanish was the basis for the dialogue spoken by Greedo in Star Wars IV: A New Hope.) (Additional side note: Han Shot First).
After dinner, I retired to my tent, but about an hour into sleep I had to pee. So I got up, put on a fleece and went outside to pee over the side of the ridge on which we were camping. Once I got done, however, I began to shiver uncontrollably and was overwhelmed by the deepest cold I have ever felt. The high mountain air, which had seemed mild moments before, was suddenly colder than Antarctica. I had to sprint back to my tent, where it took me 15 minutes to relax my jaw from the chattering teeth.
Coming up soon: Other bodily function stories related to my time in Peru, including the story of the deaf guy taking a shit on 800 year old Inca ruins in full view of 150 people.
2 comments:
A preist, a rabbi, Richard Nixon, and The Misanthrope are all climbing an Incan ruin when a deaf guy walks up and takes a shit right in front of them...
Hillary was there too, wearing leather boots and lightly whipping me.
What, sorry...different kind of trip...
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