-Imagine that was your house, Julia. Would you mind that at all?

-I wouldn't mind at all.

 

 

Just down from the cave is my final goal at the end of Day One. Luckily for me and countless other walkers, it's a rather special overnight refuge. One man made this isolated spot accessible. Albert Vandery was a young white farmer with a very ambitious goal. Lacking maps, money and even a road, he decided to build a hotel here. I'm arranged to meet someone who has been visiting this spot for more than 50 years.

-It's an extraordinary position, this hotel, and Albert is the man who had the vision to put it here.

-Well, he was looking for the ideal place, and he came hunting here. He came to hunt in this valley. And he thought this was the ideal spot.

-But logistically, this was a nightmare.

-Of course, it was. I don't know how he thought he would succeed.