:19:05
Half an hour to an hour after
leaving the summit, we were lost.
:19:08
We were in the wild now,
we couldn't see anything.
:19:21
Then we got like a little break
in the clouds and I saw the ridge,
:19:24
so I started climbing back up to it.
:19:37
I didn't know it was the side
of the ridge I was on, but
:19:39
it was actually an enormous
cornice, an overhang of snow and ice,
:19:44
and I was walking up over the top of it.
:20:07
I was left hanging, looking
down, as all this snow and ice
:20:12
then fell away from me, down the
west side of the Siula Grande.
:20:19
I got back up on the ridge
and shouted then to Joe
:20:22
that I'd found the
ridge, like that, I said,
:20:24
"I found the ridge, Joe!"
:20:28
We'd hoped to go down that day,
:20:31
but by the time it got dark,
we were still very high.
:20:34
Still at 6000m.
:20:37
And that night, as we made
a brew, the gas ran out.