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The terrain dictated exactly how we advanced.

A lot of the time if we were going along on tracks – what few tracks we did go on – we used Indian file, which is staggered file on either side of the track, like a zig zag.

But there are great rivers of rock – big white boulders – and you have to cross them and then there's the heather and the gorse and its constantly wet.

So the wind chill factor was – I think somebody said minus 40 degrees – and storm force winds and horizontal rain – a nightmare scenario.

... We are horrible, we're miserable as sin, all of us – we're missing home, want a dry fag, warm, dry boots, a cheese and onion sandwich and a bottle of blue top milk.

I used to dream of these.