ABSTRACT
The theme of bravery and inner strength brings together those aspects of the narratives in which the interviewees express a feeling of great achievement, or relate to acts in which their powers and potentials were brought to a maximum or were stretched even beyond that. This chapter describes the different manifestations of this theme within the three sub-phases of the journey Before that it is important to understand the concept of bravery within the Ethiopian culture. It presents the different aspects of bravery and inner strength as they are expressed in the narratives, within the different phases of the journey. A different aspect of their experience of bravery and inner strength was the actualisation of resourcefulness. As life in Sudan was in some aspects so different from that on the trekking journey, there was also a change in the expressions of bravery and inner strength which took precedence: resourcefulness became central, and leadership a significant aspect of their conduct.
