That was thanks to Wales' fly-half Neil Jenkins, whose six penalties had limited the seemingly rampant England's lead to 25-18. The win was all the sweeter because of that 96-13 drubbing in their encounter in South Africa the previous year.

Cardiff brought their Polish hit-man Gregori Kacala on in the second half and the first thing he did was smash me in the chops but I didn’t care and smiled at him. Henry's side won that too 23-18 but it didn't pass by without incident as Charvis and Pumas prop Roberto Grau received two-match bans for punching. At 5,893m, Kilimanjaro is the highest mountain in Africa and one of the tallest, free-standing volcanoes in the world.It was our last game at Wembley. It was a special place, knowing England were going for the Championship," says Scott Quinnell, Wales' number eight that day. He was part of the team of Welsh captains to climb Kilimanjaro last March and toured Liberia in 2009 on various projects for the Samaritan’s Purse. In April, he will go to Swaziland to undertake coaching, literacy projects and help build much-needed homes.

Some people also get flushed because when there is less oxygen coming in the blood vessels will open up. Maybe they were a little bit more clinical and the first try we were a little bit lost on defence. It was a try we didn’t want to lose.” On Friday night, the family man from Ynysybwl predicted a victory for Warren Gatland’s men, who hadn’t won an international test match in the last seven times of trying. Most people watching on the day would have been expecting him to put his head down and barge through but that try summed him up really." Young said: “Whenever Cardiff played Swansea the players would go at it hammer and tongs because there was a lot of competition for Wales places.” Read More Related ArticlesYou haven’t got a sense of awareness around yourself; you feel slightly disorientated and a bit woozy. Your lips become purple and your nail beds won’t flush red when you press on them. The first cap was great, but I didn’t just want the first cap. It’s strange, we set our standards, but when you actually get there, it doesn’t fulfil what you think it will. When I was a kid I thought, ‘When I get to play for Wales I’ll have a big car and holidays’, and yes they were nice — but they still don’t fill the void. Rugby, after all, was trying to sell itself as a global sport, with the World Cup as its showcase. It wanted schoolchildren to be enthralled by events on the pitch and take part themselves in greater numbers. If you were exposed to the altitude of the summit of Everest (8,848m) without acclimatisation, within two to three minutes you would lose consciousness. But in 1978 Reinhold Messner and Peter Habeler climbed the mountain without supplementary oxygen.” I don't think they laid the pitch until a couple of days before the game, so the final training session before was a bit makeshift," said Jenkins.