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There are very few big adventures left. Children's stories used to specialize in them. These days you no longer find such people in fiction, let alone in real life. Or so I thought until I met Charles Blackmore. Blackmore led an expedition across the Taklaınakan Desert in China locally known as the Desert of Death. The team he led was composed of four Britons including a sector, a photographer, four Chinese locals, 30 camels and six camel handlers: any misunderstanding could have cost everyone their lives and the expedition's success. In the event, it took 59 days to cross from west to east, and the desert was very 'kind' to us.
The team suffered unspeakable hardships; extremes of temperature; the loss of part of their precious water supply, 'But, when we were at the limits after seven days we managed to find some. We didn't experience the Taklamakan's legendary sandstroms. And we never did the raw, biting desert cold. What drove me on more than anything else was the need to survive. I remember day one-we sat at the edge of the desert and it was such an inferno that you couldn't breathe! I thought, 'we have got to do it now! At that moment I was a very scared man'. If it was like that at the beginning, how did they feel towards the end? 'When you've walked for 1000 kilometers you're not going to duck out. You've endured so much; you've so much behind you. We were very thin, but very muscular and sinewy despite our physical exhaustion'.
'When I have doubts about myself now, as a personal achievement, I feel proud of that expedition than of anything else I've done. Yet in terms of a lifetime's achievement, I think of my family and happiness we share - against that yardstick, the desert does not measure up, does not compare'. Has Charles Blackmore found peace? I yearn for the challenge open spaces-the resolve. We were buoyed up by the sense of purpose. I find it difficult now to be part of the uniformity of modern life'