Chris Browne and Debra Fox

摘要

The first time Chris Browne met Debra Fox didn't go as planned. Browne was on his way to Ngorongoro Crater Lodge in Tanzania in 1997 to add the finishing touches to the design of the newly rebuilt lodge when everything that could go wrong did. The car Fox sent to collect him was unbranded, and because of a language barrier and some miscommunication, Browne was left stranded in flood-like conditions on the side of an airstrip. Desperate and out of options, he walked three hours to a hotel, found a high-frequency radio-there were no phones-and contacted Fox who was at the lodge waiting for him. A terse conversation about the placement of cushions ensued. Browne never made it to the lodge and for the next six weeks, he and Fox didn't speak.