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The fact, that you are
tied to your partner,
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means that you put an immense amount of
trust in someone else's skill and ability.
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But at some point, you may be thinking,
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"For god's sake, Simon, don't fall
here, for god's sake, don't fall here"
:09:28
The rope can be something that rather
than save your life, could kill you.
:09:31
If your mate falls off then all
this gear rips out, you're dead,
:09:34
you're gonna go with him.
:09:38
If you're gonna do that sort of climbing
at some point you're gonna have to rely
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wholly on your partner.
:09:54
I think we were very pleased
at the end of that first day.
:09:57
We had done a lot of
climbing, good climbing.
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And we were very confident at
that point that we should make it.
:10:07
That altitude, you dehydrate enormously.
:10:11
You have to drink a lot
of fluid, 4-5 liters a day.
:10:14
And the only way you can
get it, is by melting snow.
:10:19
Everything is so time-consuming.
:10:21
To make a single brew at that
altitude takes a very long time,
:10:25
You're perhaps looking at an hour
just to make a couple of cups.
:10:29
For that reason, we perhaps didn't
brew up as much as we should have done
:10:32
but we didn't have an awful lot
of spare gas with us, either.
:10:47
There's not a lot of risk
in our lives normally now.
:10:54
And to put an element of risk back
into it takes us out of the humdrum.