Given the power of the hunting grapevine, many of you already know I was involved in a serious accident in Cameroon late last month. Briefly, PH Dougie Stephenson and I were in a machan on the morning of May 6 when a limb from a nearby tree broke and fell across the limb on which our machan was built. Both of us, along with a tracker, fell 35 feet in the dark and lay there in the rain for five hours until help arrived. The damage? Four fractured or broken verterbrae on my part, plus a hairline-fractured pelvis, two rib fractures and an annoying tendon injury to an important typing finger. Dougie did not know it at the time, but he essentially broke his neck – a potentially paralyzing injury. The tracker had massive contusions, but otherwise was unscathed. He was walking by the time I finally got out of Cameroon.....
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