Hurt2Help are running the TransAlpineRun 2010!

This September our husband and wife team will retrace the footsteps of Hannibal:

296km - 8 Days - 17700m Ascent - Across Germany, Austria and Italy.

All in aid of Facing Africa, a little-known British charity concerned with the prevention and cure of the merciless disease Noma.

Their surgical rehabilitation of survivors is heartbreakingly wonderful and more than worthy of buckets of our sweat in the hope of filling buckets with your donations!

We are Shelley and Gav Phillips. Follow our journey ..

Wednesday 25 August 2010

Waking the desert .. A celebration.

Bodies in unison we skirt the jebel range.
Our scrunch, scrunch a blast of sound in the cool pre-dawn.

Climbing slopes, crossing plateaus, descending slidingly steep pitches .. for the last time this time?

A myriad of sound replaces colour in this land sucked dry of hues.

Crash! Bash! Slam!
Tinkle. Crinkle. Crumble ..
Pop! Pfff ..
Crack! Slip. Snap!
Tink. Tink.

And in the heart of blistering summer camels watch from on high as we crash toil across the metal-like plates of stone .. for the last time this time.

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