Turd on the Run

He and his guide walked four and half days in the rain along the Annapurna trail and then he got chilled and had no more dry clothes. A fever hit, then diarrhea and for three days he tightened up through stomach cramps and took Cipro and other medicines and didn't get any better and couldn't eat. He read a Dean Kootz book. He ripped out each page as he finished it to lighten the load. He knew he would be weaker when he and the guide headed back up the trail but that was not to happen. Trekkers coming back down the trail reported two feet of snow along the approaches to the high pass at 5,500 meters. His guide wanted to continue but he said no. I didn't sign on for walking in snow, he said, and you only have running shoes, so no. They headed down the next day and he saw the mountains he'd missed seeing on the way up the trail.