Mumwe mushanyi wechidiki wekuAmerica apona chitima chaityisa chaakabatirira kunze kweGhan murima raitonhora zvikuru sezvo chairova mhanyiro inosvika 110km/h muSouth Australian Outback.
Chad Vance, 19, akamhanyisa The Ghan mushure mekuishaya muPort Augusta, achikwanisa kukwira nekuzviminyira pamanera madiki apo chitima chaimhanya kweanenge 200km husiku.
Kwaive maawa maviri nemaminetsi makumi maviri nhengo yeGhan crew isati yanzwa kuchema kwemudzidzi wekuAlaska kuti abatsirwe anenge makiromita makumi maviri kumaodzanyemba kwePimba ndokumisa chitima nechimbichimbi, Sunday Mail inoshuma.
"Ndainetsekana kuti handisi kuzopona," Mr Vance vakadaro nezverwendo rwavo.
“Kudai ndakadonha ndichimhanya kudaro ndokurovera pamatombo akashata ari pasi apa, handifungi kuti ndingadai ndakabudirira.”
Nhengo yeGhan crew Marty Wells akatendeuka paakanzwa VaVance vachishevedzera vachida rubatsiro ndokudhonza mubato wemabhureki echitima, achinunura mushanyi kubva panjodzi yaigona kuuraya.
"Chad murume ane rombo rakanaka - patakamununura ganda rake rakanga rakachena uye miromo yake yaive yebhuruu," akadaro Mr Wells, nyanzvi anoshanda neThe Ghan, Great Southern Railway.
“Takanga tichiri kure neanenge maawa matatu kubva pataizomira uye panguva iyoyo, angadai akafa nyore nehypothermia kana kuti akatadza kubata uye kudonha kufa dai asina kununurwa.”
Nhau yaVance inoshamisa yekupona yakatanga pavakakwira The Ghan muAdelaide nemusi weChina rwendo rwekuenda kuAlice Springs.
Kufanana nevazhinji vaifamba mungoro dzakagara, akatora mukana wekutambanudza makumbo ake panguva pfupi akamira muMid-North dhorobha rePort Augusta nguva dza5.30pm.
Mudzidzi wepayunivhesiti, anobva kamusha kadiki keNorth Pole, nechepakati peAlaska, akaenda kunombofamba-famba mutaundi, asi pashure pokunge arasika nguva akasvika pachikuva panguva iyo The Ghan yakanga ichibuda.
Muchikepe maiva nomukwende wake wose nezvinhu zvinokosha, kubatanidza pasipoti yake netikiti rechitima. Vatofamba nechitima kubva kuSydney kuenda kuAdelaide, vasvika kuAustralia muna Chivabvu 17, VaVance vakati vaiziva kuti Ghan yaizosimuka kunze kweguta kuti ichinje vatyairi isati yaenderera mberi nerwendo.
Akafunga kutandanisa chitima chisati chambozorora.
VaVance vakati pavakasvika pachitima chakamira, vakatanga kurova mahwindo engoro yekudyira yekirasi yekutanga. Akataura kuti vafambi havana kumuteerera nekuti "pamwe vaifunga kuti ndiri mwana anopenga" panze.
Mushure memaminitsi mashanu, chitima chakatanga kusimuka zvishoma nezvishoma, chichisiya VaVance vachifunga kuti vaizomira muPort Augusta vaine madhora gumi chete, kamera yedhijitari nehembe kumusana kwavo.
Mushanyi wechidiki uyu akabva aita sarudzo "yemusikirwo" - iyo yaakabvuma mukutarisa "yakanyanya kupenga" - uye akakwanisa kubata masitepisi pedyo nekuseri kwechitima ndokuzviwisira panzvimbo yakamanikana.
Sezvo usiku hwaifamba uye chitima chichiwedzera kumhanya, kunze kweThe Ghan kutonhora kwakadzika.
Zvinoenderana neBureau yeMeteorology iyo thermometer yakanyura kusvika pa8.4C paWoomera pahusiku huri mubvunzo. Vakapfeka bhutsu, jean uye T-shati chete, VaVance vaifanirawo kubata nemhepo yakaoma, iyo maererano nekarukureta yemamiriro ekunze inoisa tembiricha yakatenderedza -7C.
Maawa maviri nemaminetsi makumi maviri mushure mekusvetukira mumasitepisi, nhare dzaVaVance dzekupererwa dzekubatsira dzakapindurwa. Va Wells vakati mushure mekupinzwa muchikepe, chikwama chiya chainge charukutika uye nekupindwa nechando chakadonha pasi.
"Aidederawo zvisingadzoreki kwemaawa akati wandei uye akachema-chema nekuva nechiveve kuruboshwe rwemuviri wake nemaoko uye akati chiso chake chairwadza," Mr Wells vakadaro. "Handisati ndamboona zvakadai uye ndinovimba kuti handichazozvione zvichiitika zvakare."
VaVance vakagamuchira rubatsiro rwekutanga kubva kuvashandi - kusanganisira kapu yesobho - uye vakakwidziridzwa kuita imba yekurara yekugeza inopisa uye kurara kunodziya husiku. Hudiki hwake uye hudiki hwekutonhora kwemamiriro ekunze zvaireva kuti Mr Vance vakakurumidza kupora.
"Ndakaburuka muchitima zuva rakatevera muAlice Springs ndikaenda kunoshanya kuUluru neKings Canyon," Vance vakadaro.
Mudzidzi mukuru wepfungwa paYunivhesiti yeAlaska Fairbanks, abva kuDarwin nhasi kuenda kuCairns, kune imwe scuba diving paGreat Barrier Reef, asati adzokera kuSydney uyezve kumusha musi waChikumi 17.
