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I had two prusik loops. Prusik
loops are thin cords of rope.
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And if you use a special twisting knot
on the rope, you can slide it up the rope,
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and pull on it, and
the knot grips the rope.
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Clip a snapping to it and then a
sling to it, and you can stand up.
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And if you got another one, tied
above it, you slide that one up,
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Standing this loop is now higher.
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I was trying to hold myself
upright, to keep the rope in place.
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And then trying to put this knot
through itself, and through itself,
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and this fiddly bloody rope... it is just
hard to describe how I couldn't do it.
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Because my fingers, I just
couldn't feel the fingers at all.
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And I'd be looking and trying to
push the thing in, and using my teeth,
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and getting it round,
and getting it round.
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My hands were cold, my feet
were... I was very very cold.
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It was a desperate position, made worse
by the fact that that I had no idea
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what Joe was doing, or
what position he was in.
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I just couldn't figure out why it was taking
him so long to get his weight off the rope,
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there was no sensible
explanation for it.
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I got one on, and I clipped it to my
chest, because that would keep me upright.
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And I tried to put the other one on,
and I had real trouble with my hands.
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And I dropped the bloody
thing, and I watched it fall.
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And I knew that I was stuffed then.
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I just thought, "Well,
I can't climb the rope",