A message from the expedition’s Honorary Medical Officer:
“A training camp in circuitous and mountainous narrow gauge railways has been established in the foothills of the Snowdonia mountains. This has been supplied with all the necessary items for acclimatization to the Indian narrow gauge, ie spicy Indian tea bags (aka Chai), sickbags, curry powder, Imodium capsules etc. Details of the programme will follow - sicknotes will not be accepted, but the team induction will continue with visits to the Kasturi* and cultural exchanges with East Lancashire.” On behalf of the team’s medical committee Dr Jim Ford MSc MFOM DDAM DRCOG certMHS FAMS MBE (by marriage) Consultant Occupational Physician For those not practised in the reading of prescriptions, this can be rewritten as: “A training camp in circuitous and mountainous narrow gauge railways has been established in the foothills of the Snowdonia mountains.
This has been supplied with all the necessary items for acclimatisation to the Indian narrow gauge, ie spicy Indian tea bags (aka Chai), sickbags, curry powder, Imodium capsules etc.
Details of the programme will follow - sicknotes will not be accepted, but the team induction will continue with visits to the Kasturi* and cultural exchanges with East Lancashire.”
On behalf of the team’s medical committee Dr Jim Ford MSc MFOM DDAM DRCOG certMHS FAMS MBE (by marriage) Consultant Occupational Physician Message ends.
* An eating house of the curry persuasion in the Southport locality.