With a few hours left until the
new year, we were preparing our dinner and sorting out the food. The mood was
vibrant with us whistling cheerful tunes and sharing smiles. But then it hit us
– we had neither forks, nor spoons, nor any other utensils to eat our gourmet
meal. And it wouldn’t be so easy to get them now since we were bivying on a
midway ledge up the Jebel Misht – perhaps the highest rock face in Arabia.
