Teh One Who Knocks
12-12-2016, 01:31 PM
By NEIL SYSON - The Sun
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AN adventurer on a 1,100-mile trek across Antarctica has revealed he is suffering a chilling problem — Polar Penis.
Alex Brazier, son of Tory MP Julian Brazier, is one of six military reservists out to tackle the icy wastes.
Cruel winds add to plunging temperatures and threaten to freeze them stiff. Yet so far only unlucky Alex, 26, has been hit by the medical condition, also known as Antarctic Willy.
Alex posted: “We found for some reason I was getting particularly chilly in the nether regions.
“There’s a phenomenon called Polar Penis, which sounds hilarious but as it turns out incredibly unpleasant, and really quite painful and cold, so suffering a bit from this morning.
“Fortunately, I now have a large thick woollen hat stuffed down in that region. It turned out to make all the difference.
“The hat will probably stay there for the next 80 days.”
A spokesman at the expedition HQ explained: “It’s more of a Polar expeditioners’ condition where, due to exposure to the cold over a prolonged period, the ahem, penis gets very cold, painful and swollen.”
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He said the condition sounded ‘hilarious’ just from its name but was actually very difficult to cope with
Alex and his comrades plan to complete the challenge unsupported. Each man is on skis and pulling his own sled, containing food and their tent.
They will cross the Titan Dome, down the Shackleton Glacier and on to the Ross Ice Shelf.
If they succeed they will more than double the number of people who have trekked across the entire continent in this way.
The team — the South Pole Expedition Army Reservists 2017, or Spear17 — is headed by Lou Rudd and hopes to raise £100,000 for the Army Benevolent Fund.
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Alex added in his post: “Other highlights included long nose icicles, where you have a flap down to your goggles, and your breath freezes, so you get these huge icicles (Lou grew one which was about six inches long).”
Lou told of a day with 50-knot head winds adding: “The wind chill was heading towards the minus 30s and that made going pretty difficult. And then the Great White Queen really started throwing it all at us…”
To support the trek, go to www.spear17.org.
http://i.imgur.com/0Ag7KoY.jpg
AN adventurer on a 1,100-mile trek across Antarctica has revealed he is suffering a chilling problem — Polar Penis.
Alex Brazier, son of Tory MP Julian Brazier, is one of six military reservists out to tackle the icy wastes.
Cruel winds add to plunging temperatures and threaten to freeze them stiff. Yet so far only unlucky Alex, 26, has been hit by the medical condition, also known as Antarctic Willy.
Alex posted: “We found for some reason I was getting particularly chilly in the nether regions.
“There’s a phenomenon called Polar Penis, which sounds hilarious but as it turns out incredibly unpleasant, and really quite painful and cold, so suffering a bit from this morning.
“Fortunately, I now have a large thick woollen hat stuffed down in that region. It turned out to make all the difference.
“The hat will probably stay there for the next 80 days.”
A spokesman at the expedition HQ explained: “It’s more of a Polar expeditioners’ condition where, due to exposure to the cold over a prolonged period, the ahem, penis gets very cold, painful and swollen.”
http://i.imgur.com/vP1TSlD.jpg
He said the condition sounded ‘hilarious’ just from its name but was actually very difficult to cope with
Alex and his comrades plan to complete the challenge unsupported. Each man is on skis and pulling his own sled, containing food and their tent.
They will cross the Titan Dome, down the Shackleton Glacier and on to the Ross Ice Shelf.
If they succeed they will more than double the number of people who have trekked across the entire continent in this way.
The team — the South Pole Expedition Army Reservists 2017, or Spear17 — is headed by Lou Rudd and hopes to raise £100,000 for the Army Benevolent Fund.
http://i.imgur.com/R3pBayj.jpg
Alex added in his post: “Other highlights included long nose icicles, where you have a flap down to your goggles, and your breath freezes, so you get these huge icicles (Lou grew one which was about six inches long).”
Lou told of a day with 50-knot head winds adding: “The wind chill was heading towards the minus 30s and that made going pretty difficult. And then the Great White Queen really started throwing it all at us…”
To support the trek, go to www.spear17.org.