:26:03
'Cause I knew there wasn't any help.
:26:05
That'd been an easy
way for him to say it.
:26:09
I didn't think we really seriously
thought that there was any choice
:26:22
I couldn't put my finger on it, why
I thought something had happened.
:26:27
And I started to think "Is one of
them dead, or are both of them dead?"
:26:33
Even "If one of them is dead", not
"which one do I want to be dead", but
:26:36
"if one comes back,
who do I want it to be?"
:26:42
It's kind of, quite cold
to say it, but I guess
:26:43
I would rather have it
would have been Simon.
:26:50
I thought, "oh, he's not leaving"
:26:58
I calmed down a bit and
managed to focus myself again
:27:02
to think how I was going to
get him down the mountain.
:27:10
We discussed, between us, what
we were going to have to do.
:27:13
We thought, well, we got
2 ropes that are 50m long.
:27:16
And if we tie them together we have a
100m rope with a knot in the middle of it.
:27:21
So I tied to one end and
Simon tied to the other,
:27:24
in theory he could lower me down 100m.
:27:30
To really get anchors to
lower him from that do matter,
:27:33
what I did was cut a bucket in the
snow, sit in there and brace myself.
:27:38
And I sort of lay down between his legs.
:27:43
And Simon started lowering then.
:27:51
I'd lower him one rope length, 50m,
:27:54
and then the knot would come
up between the two ropes.
:27:57
Now the knot would not go
through the belay plates.