dangerous times 3

3) Vietnam
trekking through the jungle with group of about 20 people, we'd been walking for a few hours and i still hadn't taken a single picture. i love taking pictures, and it was doing my head in that i hadn't been able to shoot the landscape. finally, we got to a point that was really beautiful and i decided (stupidly, i have to admit) that i couldn't pass this one up. the problem was, i was standing on some very sharp rocks that were more akin to thick needles coming out of the ground. and obviously, the people behind me couldn't care less about me stopping, so they barged on, despite the obvious problem this caused, not least to my balance. luckily, i tend to scream before hitting the ground (which my best friend had noticed at the beginning of our trip and said was totally ridiculous). so when i did lose my balance, and started moving backward towards all the other needle-sharp rocks, the guy who was coming up right behind me grabbed me. i don't think 'thank you' covered half of what i was feeling, but he knew it, so i guess we were ok. if i'd had time to think about it, i probably would have refused to move and cried my eyes out, but as it was, with more people pressing on, we just kept moving, the guy holding my arm until we were on safer ground.