• Shoulder surgery right before hike resulting in arthrosis; still healing during hike.
• Infected tattoo during hike.
• Treating tattoo with oral and topical antibiotics during hike.
• Drank from open streams in the Alps, Corsica, and Jordan during hike and got diarrhea.
• Got multiple vaccinations in Paris while very weak after hundreds of miles of hiking, then resumed hiking again without sufficient recovery time. Vaccinations were yellow fever, malaria, typhus, hepatitis A, Japanese encephalitis, and rabies.
• Likely tick exposure in many countries including the Alps and Sweden.
• Developed finger joint stiffness while hiking.
• Multiple head injuries while hiking.
• Bitten by clouds of mosquitoes while hiking in Sweden.
• Hiked 40 plus miles through the desert of Jordan in one go with no sleep.
• Severe dehydration in Jordan desert.
• Possible sunstroke in Jordan.
• Chased through desert of Jordan at night.
• Ate balls of goat's cheese offered to him by a Jordan nomad.
• After arriving in India, flu-like symptoms and two ear infections.
• Altitude sickness in India.
• Shot of dexamethasone in India for altitude sickness.