Not for use in temperatures over 30C (85F)

BRANDBERG, NAMIBIA _ This place is fittingly named Brandberg – Fire Mountain.
It is about 42 degrees C (105F), it is midday and we head up the mountain to see the Bushman paintings, drawings on the rock walls done between 2,000 and 7,000 years ago. The most famous painting is 'The White Lady' although later research revealed that it was really ''The White Man.''

Later, locals would tell us that heading up Fire Mountain in the midday sun was A) Stupid. B) Insane. C) Insanely stupid. So, like mad dogs and Englishmen, we headed out in the midday sun.
Jurgen, our Tamara tribe guide, kept saying ''Too hot.' The trek is supposed to take about 90 minutes round trip. It takes nearly twice that because Jurgen keeps stopping to cool off his charges in the shadows up trees and to say ''Too hot.''

Everybody's hot. But Eva - ''I'm built for snow'' - is overheating. Doug offers to take the little backback she was carrying. She snaps and growls and he jumps back, narrowly avoiding having his arm turned into a stump.

About halfway up, Eva is dumping a bottle of drinking water on her head. Doug, from a safe distance, points out that if she keeps doing that we might all die of thirst.

We made it and it was worth it. The drawings are slowly fading away but the White Lady from Namibia is there. So is the White Hot Lady from Norway.

That evening, Doug notes that everyone was afraid of Eva. ''Oh don't be silly,'' she says, and then looks around to to see everyone nodding.

The group agrees to have Eva labled with the warning ''Not for use in temperatures over 30C (85F)''

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