Sunday, December 04, 2005

Rock Climbing



We went rock climbing at Crazy Horse rock in Chaing Mai. It was just the two of us and 2 Thai guides. We turned up at the rock face, one guide asks who wants to go 1st - nervously Sam agrees to go, so Sam get tied to her harness, and told to start climbing - no instruction, no helmet - nothing , just Sam and a 40 meter vertical cliff face.
After Sams jaw is scraped back off the floor, she turns and starts to climb. 10 minutes later she is at the top, and bounces back down, not having slipped once. She looks at me (a little whiter) and smiles, the kind of smile that says 'I hope you lnow how much i love you to do that'.
So its my turn now, and i think this is going to be easy, I get half way up, and reach the overhang, I'm using all the strngth i have to hold myself on the tiny ledge, I stop for a minute to rest, and take a look down, my left leg starts to shke uncontrolably, then my hands start - i realise that i am scared ****less. I cannot believe for the life of me how Sam climbed up this rock face, it is the scariest and hardest thing i have ever done. I made it to the top now in shear ore of what Sam had just done, then absail back down, Sam and I look at each other with knowing looks and disbelief at what we just did.
We carryied on and did another 4 climbes which got increasing difficult , we started to enjoy it abit more when we relaxed and went slower up the rock, and got big rushes from making it to the top.
Check out the photos attatched - you may have to look close to see Sam as she is wearing black trousers.
We arrived back in Chaing Mai, and went straight for a few beers, the naturally ended up in a Private Karaoke booth with an Irish man, French girl,and a Gay Lady boy. Then on to a club called Bubbles. At the end of the night i fell out of a tuk tuk.
Cracking day!
Sam & Chris