:18:00
and then we'd be able to abseil
down the smaller section of the face.
:18:10
Already the clouds were coming
in from the east. Big clouds.
:18:22
We expected this ridge to
be quite straightforward,
:18:25
quite an easy way to descend.
:18:27
We were hoping, we would
be able to sort of walk.
:18:29
And it turned out to be very difficult.
:18:33
It was horrendous.
:18:35
Vertical on the west side, with the
cornices overhanging the west side,
:18:39
and on the east side steep
fleetings running down 100m below us.
:18:47
It was a shock. And
it was quite dangerous.
:18:49
It all got a bit out of
control. That stage of things.
:19:05
Half an hour to an hour after
leaving the summit, we were lost.
:19:08
We were in the wild now,
we couldn't see anything.
:19:21
Then we got like a little break
in the clouds and I saw the ridge,
:19:24
so I started climbing back up to it.
:19:37
I didn't know it was the side
of the ridge I was on, but
:19:39
it was actually an enormous
cornice, an overhang of snow and ice,
:19:44
and I was walking up over the top of it.