IN his day, there wasn't too much that could move man-mountain league legend Mark Geyer but yesterday on the hill tops above Gallipoli he confessed to the emotions overbearing him.Geyer lamented as he looked at the headstones of the fallen Diggers how many were 18 years old, the same age as his son Logan.
Geyer had spent 12 months preparing for his first trip to Turkey, his first trip overseas since the Kangaroos Tour of 1990, but he was not prepared for what he saw.
"The emotion is just unbelievable, I hadn't expected that," Geyer said as he stood at a narrow ridge called the Nek, scene of some of the fiercest fighting by the Anzacs and where scenes from the movie Gallipoli were based on.
Geyer said he had also been "blown away" by the respect being shown by the thousands of young people he had met on the trip.
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