Summary
LANDLOCKED and hemmed in by mountains on all sides, Afghanistan in the summer months becomes a baking caldron. The monsoon rains that beat down on India and Pakistan cannot reach across the mountain ranges so Afghanistan boils at this time of the year. Earlier this month, Emma Cowing, a Scotsman journalist, was on a special assignment covering Nato troops in Helmand Province.
On a day when the daytime temperature soared to 54C (129F) Emma suffered severe heat exhaustion, a condition in which the body's internal temperature rises to a point when it shuts down vital organs. Thanks to the prompt action of the Nato forces - who placed their own lives in danger by driving straight back to camp along tracks which might have contained roadside bombs - her life was saved.See the full content of this document
Extract
Leader: The Heat Is Literally On Our Troops
Emma has decided to tell her story, which we publish today, specifically because it brings into focus the appalling and dangerous physical conditions which the British and Nato forces have to face in Afghanistan.
Imagine having to patrol in he...See the full content of this document
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