Touching the Void

00:00:43 We climbed 'cause it's fun.

00:04:38 being a non-climber in that environment.

00:08:37 I think we surprised ourselves as we got up the icefield about 300m

00:12:59 The last section on the face

00:16:18 And then we thought, "Hang on, we've come all this way,"

00:21:10 I thought at that stage it was pretty much in the bag I suppose, the whole climb.

00:24:53 And he said, "Are you ok?"

00:27:43 And Simon started lowering then.

00:30:24 and risk getting trapped by a storm that didn't break.

00:34:43 and this fiddly bloody rope... it is just hard to describe how I couldn't do it.

00:38:15 Then I remembered that I've got a pen knife in the top of my rucksack.

00:42:59 So I thought, if I pull on this rope it will come tight on his body".

00:49:06 Very quickly, the ground dropped away steeply.

00:52:40 I didn't know their family names, I really knew nothing about them.

00:57:03 There werre all these sort of thoughts swirling around in my mind

01:00:36 and that was my way out.

01:06:19 And they do make you feel small and vulnerable.

01:12:33 and that the only way to do it was to try and hop.

01:18:15 Couldn't find it, couldn't get it.

01:24:15 Not just physically. Physically is very obvious

01:27:17 the weather had changed.

01:31:14 and then I'd just drift off again.

01:34:42 And then Simon woke up.

06:00:08 the camp, and there was Joe.