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It would now go very cold indeed.
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And we were up
5800-6000m, it was windy.
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Then it started snowing, and it meant
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that the whole face was pooring
with powdersnow avalanches.
:12:43
The snow would actually stick
on the outside of your clothing.
:12:46
It would then freeze on top of you,
like you're wearing a suit of armor.
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The last section on the face
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was about 100m of the
most nightmarish climbing.
:13:06
Completely unstable powder snow.
:13:10
No anchors at any point.
:13:13
It was physically very, very
tiring, full-body climbing really.
:13:26
It took us the best part of 5 or
6 hours to climb about 65 meters.
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Carried on way after it got dark.
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I was getting extremely cold,
'cause I was sitting still
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while Simon was trying to climb.
:13:48
I was getting near hypothermic.
:13:51
You just knew that if you'd
just carried on, regardless,
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it was gonna go tits up.
:13:57
So we dug a snow cave.