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| Sevenoaks School, UK |
“To London Bridge please…” I requested as I threw my 120 litre kit-bag into the back of the black taxi. The cab driver looked at me inquisitively and asked whether I had the “chopped up remains of my ex-boyfriend in the bag and was going to throw them off the bridge”. I suppose that it was rather odd to see a rather flustered Burberry-clad, high-heeled, thirty-something-year old carrying around a small, trendy Paul Smith laptop bag and an absolutely gargantuan monstrous red kit-bag at 7:30 in the morning… I decided it was likely not the best strategy to let my cabbie think he was ‘aiding and abetting’ an escaping criminal so I shared with him the contents of the bag --- 1 down suit, 1 jumar, 1 abseil device, 1 harness, 1 pair big boots, 1 pair inner boots, 1 pair big mitts, 1 buff, 2 carabineers, and an RGS coffee table book about the history of Everest… all in, about 20 kilos of kit in preparation of my presentation for
Sevenoaks School.
