The night before last a group of Swiss youths had rather put Owain the guide on edge by conducting what sounding like a game of football in their dorm when everyone else had their alarms set for 3am.
Last night a different disturbance broke out this time the cause was heavy drinking on the part of some burly Swiss chaps.
"Nine bottles of wine on their table! and bottles in the dormitory!" Owain decided to take issue, a huge paralytic Swiss took a swing first at him and then the hut guardian who was, as a consequence, moved to the point of throwing the troublemaker out.
This would have been a remarkably sobering experience sleeping rough at 2800 metres even in mid-summer.
6 comments:
Wow, you have yer fair share of pretty exciting holidays! You're also a sneaky bugger - I've seen you do this before - how do you make it look like you've posted every day, when in fact you haven't? Good reporting though, I enjoyed.
Who could be arsed carrying 10+ bottles of wine to over 10,000 feet?
Surely a small amount of cannabis would have been better for all parties concerned?
I've heard a theory that only small amounts of alcohol get you drunk in the rarified atmosphere at 10,000 feet.
Must be right as I used to get drunk on half a bottle of beer upstairs in my bedroom.
This blogging thing does get written on a daily basis but only using the old style medium of paper.
When there is no means of transmission a bottle neck occurs.
There is no need to carry any bottles anywhere in the Alps as all the booze and food you can consume is helicoptered in whenever there's a break in the weather.
The Helicopter is also used for arresting people.
According to Owain, in France a phone call to the local Gendarmerie would have seen the offending inebriate charged and whisked away first thing in the morning.
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