:15:04
It is some of the most precarious, unnerving
and dangerous climbing I've ever done.
:15:18
We were actually scared, that
we would get to an impass,
:15:21
where we couldn't climb any further up.
:15:23
Because we knew we wouldn't
be able to get back down,
:15:26
not what we've already climbed.
:15:27
We were climbing ourselves into a trap.
:15:32
And not only that, we could see this
150 meter drop that was waiting for us.
:15:45
And so it was with great
relief that by 14:00,
:15:49
we got onto the north
ridge and on the west face.
:15:52
And we vowed that we didn't want to
go near any of the flutings again.
:16:05
We were pretty tired, by the
time we got onto the ridge,
:16:10
I was knackered. And
I remember thinking,
:16:13
"Oh sod it, we've done the face,"
:16:15
"now I can't really be bothered
to go all the way up there"
:16:18
And then we thought, "Hang
on, we've come all this way,"
:16:23
"we might as well stand on the top"