'As the water rose above my knees, I remembered what I had told my editor when I first began writing for Lonely Planet: "I will go anywhere". And here I was, in the back of a jeep, contemplating the unpleasant possibility of drowning in northern Mongolia.' Paul Greenway

Every traveller has one: a tale of lost luggage, bad weather, illness or worse. In this lively collection of tales of travel disasters, Lonely Planet writers - Tony Wheeler among them - share their worst moments from more than a quarter of a century of writing and researching travel guidebooks.