:50:00
And he would have been. And he would
have wanted to get down, and get water.
:50:05
And he would have wanted to find me.
:50:07
Now I did stop and pause, and I
shouted across into the crevice,
:50:11
and I yelled and yelled, "Joe, Joe".
:50:15
And I suppose again, with
the benefit of hindsight,
:50:19
after I got off the rope, I
should have gone and looked,
:50:23
into the crevice, to see where he was.
:50:26
But to be quite honest, the thought
didn't occur to me at that time.
:50:33
I was just convinced he was dead.
:50:43
Absolutely convinced, by 10, totally
convinced, that I was on my own.
:50:49
That no one was coming to get me.
:50:57
I was brought up as a devout Catholic.
:51:01
I had long since
stopped believing in God.
:51:03
I always wondered, if things really hit
the fan, whether I would, under pressure,
:51:08
turn around and say a few Hail
Mary's, and say "get me out of here".
:51:15
It never once occurred to me.
:51:18
It meant that I really don't believe.
:51:21
And I really do think that when you die,
you die. That's it, there's no afterlife.
:51:25
There's nothing.
:51:32
And I was thinking, "Could
I climb out of here?"