Top Gear Page #11

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'Because only one of us

could achieve

'immortality in the history books,

things soon got a bit ugly.'

Hammond's attacking him!

Get off!

Ha-ha-ha! I'm through.

Hammond is properly in my way now,

he really is annoying me.

I know how I can get Hammond

out of the way...

Oh, God! Not that!

I'm Genesis-ing him!

Aaaagh!

'Sadly, though, Genesis didn't work.

'So I rammed him.'

What?!

I'm in the lead again!

Whoa! Whoa!

This Volvo is so far

out of its comfort zone.

I'm going to go down in history!

Everything tells me this is...

it's the highest ground for miles

around - it's got to be in there,

it's got to be in there.

Aaaaagh!

But there can be no more than

a few hundred metres now,

we can afford to take a few knocks.

Whoa!

James, your suspension has collapsed.

Your back wheel is coming off,

I'm not joking. Ha-ha-ha!

My car has collapsed.

I'm going on foot.

'As now were Richard and I.'

End of the road for you, old friend.

I'll tell you what it's like.

I'm off.

It's geology, Jeremy, geology.

What have we got here? We've got

bedrock, the ground is sunk down,

indicating the presence

of a spring, in my mind.

Lizards.

Look at it. A stream has done this.

But where is the source?

This has been wet. Wait...

This is soggy. This is soggy.

This could be a stream. It is

a stream I'm walking up, it is.

BLEEP Hammond is not having this!

It goes downhill, that doesn't

mean it starts at the top.

Wait!

Wait!

Is it?

No.

Here?

That... Yes.

Yes!

Sorry, mate! That was close.

Hammond!

Well done. That is

the source of the River Nile.

I'm going to put my finger

in it, excuse me.

That is the root of civilisation,

that nourished the ancient

Egyptians. What, your finger?

No, not my finger, the water.

That's going to nourish the Sudan,

Egypt, Greece, Italy, Spain.

Morocco, Algeria. That water is

the lifeblood of all of it.

So, that is the undisputed source

of the River Nile,

that is the man who found it,

and somewhere way down there

is the ruined Volvo

that brought him here.

We now have to claim this

little pond for Top Gear,

so, just bear with me, while I...

Is the Top Gear flag slightly

bigger than the Union Flag?

Yes, that's right.

Have we got this the right way up

this time, so we don't get...

So, here's what I'm suggesting,

chaps - we plant the flags,

and then we do what all great

Victorian explorers did,

pose for a photograph

by our discovery.

Wait for the birdie!

Three, two, one!

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