Climbing Mount Kilimanjaro put me in touch with my inner guru. My pearls of wisdom revealed to me while crawling towards the summit have been captured here to teach and inspire.

1. Using hair products and hair brushes will make you go bald.

2. Pessimists are more likely to survive a war that optimists.

3. If your fingernails grow faster than your hair, you are unhealthy.

4. Short men are smarter.

5. Omlettes are bad if your stomach feels weak.

6. Eggplant \ Aubergine is truly a ‘vegetable’ - It has zero nutritional content

7. Children should be allowed to play video games for four to six hours each week. This makes them more intelligent.

8. Drinking lots of coconut milk will give men ‘extra inches’.

9. It is ok to eat the shell of a watermelon or the skin of mangoes - the monkeys do it. Eating them will make you more agile.

All of these are true! They are well known facts!