possible.
Returning to the hospital later that
afternoon, I noticed that all the po-
lice had cleared out, and I instant-
ly had a sense of 'Oh no!!! What has
happened?'. Thinking the worst, yet
thankfully the rider was still safe in
the hospital resting.
I quickly understood why the po-
lice had all left. The rider had agreed
to chat with one of the police officers
to answer a few questions, eventual-
ly making the mistake of telling the
police officer where his passport was.
The police had now got what they
come for. The nightmare had only
just begun.
After some discussion and numer-
ous phone calls, the Rep and I now
had to make our way down to the
police station, to try and retrieve the
passport. Reaching the police station,
it was to my horror that we found one
of the tour crew members had been
incarcerated for the entire day with-
out food or water.
We sat in some kind of hearing for
hours on end with the police stations
Inspector and Officers, and several
other parties including the injured
local’s family members. There was a
lot of back and forth in Nepalese be-
tween everyone, eventually with both
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parties coming to some sort of agree-
ment. At the time the details weren’t
clear to me.
Once the signing of documents
was completed we were all allowed to
leave. It was close to midnight by the
time I got back to my hotel and had
something to eat. Before I knew it, I
was back at the hospital, only to find
that the rider had been transferred to
another hospital for emergency sur-
gery. His conditioned had deteriorat-
ed overnight, to a now life-threatening
situation.
We headed there immediately, and
as we arrived, he was wheeled out
from post operation and straight into
the Intensive Care Unit.
Amazingly, both injured parties in-
volved in the accident, had become
roommates in the same ICU laying in
opposite hospital beds.
It’s hard to imagine how tense the
situation was with the injured Nepal-
ese’s family glaring at the guy who had
collided their family member?
Concerns for the rider’s safety was
now in question. I was quite blown
away that this was even allowed.
Eventually my concerns were eased as
a security guard was appointed to ICU,
to ensure that nothing happened be-
tween both parties.