:05:02
If no one had tried, it
wouldn't be quite the same.
:05:04
It was the the fact that people had
tried and failed, so we knew it was hard.
:05:09
And my feeling was, "Well, we'll
just do it. We're better than them."
:05:22
Since the 1970s people
have been trying to climb
:05:25
mountains in the great ranges
in what's called "Alpine style".
:05:31
And essentially, Alpine style
means you pack a rucksack
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full of all your clothing, your
food and your climbing equipment,
:05:38
and you start off from a base camp
and you try and climb the mountain
:05:41
you're gonna climb in a single push.
:05:43
You don't fix the line of
ropes uphill beforehand,
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you don't have a set of camps
that you stock and come down from.
:05:51
That's the purest style and that's the style
that Joe and I had climbed Siula Grande.
:05:59
It's a very committing way of climbing,
because you have no line of retreat.
:06:06
If something goes wrong,
it can be very very serious.
:06:10
There's no rescue, there's no helicopter
rescue and there's no other people.
:06:15
There's no margin for error.
:06:17
If you get badly hurt,
you'I probably die.
:06:28
I hadn't seen it from this
angle, and it looked steep.
:06:32
I sort of thought, you
know, "Christ, that's big".
:06:40
Looks harder than I
thought and than I expected.
:06:43
But I was excited.