Touching the Void
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:22:00
So I just wanted to put bona... dead
solid axe placements in. All the way down.

:22:06
And I was about to
swing at the ice again

:22:27
The pain is... came
flooding down my thigh

:22:30
and my knee was very, very very painful
:22:38
The impact drove my lower leg
straight through my knee joint.

:22:45
As the bone went into my tibia it
split the tibial plateau straight off

:22:52
and carried on up.
:23:02
Quite wild, the pain now. I
couldn't cope with it at first.

:23:10
I just breathed on and it started to
go and I can remember looking across

:23:13
to the west and seeing that we
were level with the summit of Rasac,

:23:16
so I had a height gauge, where we were.
:23:20
and I just thought, "fuck,
I can't have broken my leg",

:23:23
"If I have broken my leg I'm dead."
:23:45
And then the rope went slack.
:23:47
I knew that meant that
Simon was coming towards me.


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