The train landed us on a shedless shelterless platform and we had to run through the downpour across the line to the shelter.

He was asked to be MC at the function on account of his booming voice.

The first person to undertake Everesting was British mountaineer George Mallory – grandson of the famous explorer and Everest climber of the same name – who ascended Australia’s Mount Donna Buang in 1994, completing eight laps of the 1,069 metre hill.

I'm in a jackpot. Sympathy shone from those friendly eyes at once. It's shore too bad for a lady to be in a jackpot, he answered me earnestly.