Challengers reach Delhi 9th July

Intrepid challengers made it to hot and humid Delhi this Saturday morning!

Our elected leader Dan Ball, successfully took care and led the Challengers from Durham to London, navigating the tube at rush hour to Heathrow & safely on to Delhi. Flights were on time and the aircraft was spacious enough for us to have a comfortable flight, indulging in indian cuisine if we so wished!

First impressions of Delhi- incredibly noisey, colourful, craziest drivers ever, 2 lanes of traffic, but what the heck lets overtake on the inside, outside and right down the middle with some weaving between tuktuks, rickshaws, cows and insane drivers on their phones! Journey from the airport was certainly entertaining!

Sadly much of what we have seen today is utter squalour, with so many people living & sleeping on the streets with dogs, mothers carrying babies following us & asking for money for milk & food. We stand out so much and draw attention without realising it. For the challengers it is a new experience and to be fair they have coped & dealt with the long journey, the heat, the change in food, language and this constant atmosphere of blaring car hornes really well.

We have just finished our meal tonight and we have taken the first of our Diamox tablets for the altitude tomorrow. we are all pretty tired, but what a brilliant start to the Expedition!

We have an early start in the morning, up at 5.00am ready for our flight up to Leh. We are looking forward to it, hopefully quieter and calmer!

Thank you everyone for giving us such a good send off on friday, you are all very thoughtful and supportive.