:02:11
A friend of us, who'd done an amazing
amount of climbing in South-America
:02:15
had seen this face in the mid-70's.
:02:19
I think he said it would
be a challenging day out.
:02:31
It was the last big mountain
face in this range of mountains,
:02:34
that hadn't been climbed.
:02:38
There's a great unknown there.
:02:41
What's so compelling is
stepping into that unknown.
:03:18
It was an isolated spot, a 2
- days walk from a road.
:03:22
The mountains all around seemed very big,
:03:24
compared to the mountains
I'd seen in the Alps.
:03:36
We eventually reached a spot,
on the approach to Siula Grande.
:03:39
You couldn't really take the
donkeys any further than this point.
:03:44
I guess it would be 7-8 km from
the bottom of the mountains.
:03:55
We knew Siula Grande was at
the back, but we didn't see it.