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out is highly unlikely. wounded. She survived, but Ned succumbed to his wounds

Regardless, everybody was lucky I suppose, the boat did before he could get properly treated. He had asked for a heli- capsize three times, but she and crew did make it to Antarc- copter to take him to safety, but there were none to be had in tica and Ned survived. those mountains.

Many years later in the early days of the internet, after my tent had pretty much worn out, I wondered whatever hap- pened to Ned Gilette. I did a google search and discovered A few additional interesting articles on the life and times that in 1998 he and his wife decided to go for an extended of Ned Gillette: camping trip in Northern Kashmir. They were attacked by bit.ly/34YpBlu bandits and Ned was shot with a shotgun, but, with his wife, bit.ly/2I0MqMG he still managed to ? ght of the bandits. His wife was also

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