27 hours of hiking

Monday, January 15, 2007

the map

check where we supose to go and where we ended up.

And after 27 hours of hiking and climbing and cut's and scratches over our bodys we finally arrived by the cars at the start point. Exhausted but alive we did the most amazing trip together and i think it was a bounding experience and everything went well at the end. Thanks to the brave peopel of this group that i and all of us came back save and in one piece! Thanks for staying strong and calm in a extreme situation and helping each other in ....errrmm..scary situations!! This Memory will stay with me and i hope with all of you.......THANKS for sharing this with me! ...Sämi....(one of the brave ones)

Hiking back.........

13th January 07 08.00am

Altitude in meter: 789

Police, Helicopters and other adventures....

Ok, couple of hours later and freezing almost to the but off. We decided to split up in two groups......1. group to climb up a higher altitude and try to call everybody and the others to rest and rejoin us at a Beduin-camp we found. Lucky us we found that camp because we had no more water and dehydration started to fall on some of us.

13th January 02 06.38am

Altitude in meter: 1160

LOST....

So, what comes now is actually not exciting and funny anymore. After climbing up for nearly 4 hours and having some rest in between, we started to worrie that the gps-coordinats could be wrong that we had. And no gsm signal at all (cellphone). the area was like a big wall and gsm signals are sent horizontal and not vertical so no reception at all in between. The reason of no pictures during the last hours before the night is simple, i was so exhausted that i was to lazy to pick up my camera/mobile out from the "Rucksack" to take shoots. We decided after not finding the the way to Fiona's car we will go back to the road so we can walk the rest back to the start point....hmmm....we went down a wadi when it was Pitch Black and lucky us, we took some torches with us. After 3 hours of descending we found out that the Wadi we took do reach the road was holding us back. Why? We reached a cliff who goes roughly 50feet down....! So, we decided to stay in the wadi and try to sleep till the first sunlight......again "If we knew"...!

12th January 07 8.40pm

Altitude in meter: 835

Temperature in celsius: 06 degree to 02 degree