Dream File 0013-AA

There was a plan half a year ago that Richard Hammond (the presenter on Top Gear) and I were to travel to Antarctica. On the day of the expedition, I was still at home. I had to change my coat and pants because I realised that what I had on was not going to be warm enough.

So I got changed and headed out the door. Then I found myself in an unknown hotel. It felt like it was a Japanese hotel because everyone in the lobby was Japanese. Everyone spoke business formal Japanese. The hotel lobby itself was actually quite grand, marble floor, grand piano, etc. I walked out of the hotel and what greeted me was not a car, but a helipad. A helicopter had just arrived with our gear (three bag of it) for the Antarctica expedition.

We took the bags out of the chopper and into the mountain top somewhere in Antarctica. Lee Lai Shan (Hong Kong gold medallist at the Atlantic Olympics) joined us. So the three of us were on the mountain top. Lee and Hammond were doing Judo (yes, Judo) and Lee did a back flip on Hammond. It was then that Hammond rolled downhill and into a snowball. He eventually fell into the water.

Lee and I went to look for Hammond. He was in the water. We stayed with him, but we did not realise that the high tide was coming. A bunch of people on the ice warned us about the high tide, but it was too late. All three of us were underwater already. So we swam back to shore. And that was it.