:23:02
Quite wild, the pain now. I
couldn't cope with it at first.
:23:10
I just breathed on and it started to
go and I can remember looking across
:23:13
to the west and seeing that we
were level with the summit of Rasac,
:23:16
so I had a height gauge, where we were.
:23:20
and I just thought, "fuck,
I can't have broken my leg",
:23:23
"If I have broken my leg I'm dead."
:23:45
And then the rope went slack.
:23:47
I knew that meant that
Simon was coming towards me.
:24:04
I couldn't feel any bone under anything.
:24:07
I brought my hand down,
there's no blood on it,
:24:10
and the pain had gone down a little bit.
:24:12
And I thought, maybe I
was being a bit whacked,
:24:15
I'd just torn a ligament or something.
:24:22
I tried to stand on it
:24:27
I felt all the bone go, all grating and
everything and I knew it was broken then.
:24:42
The look that he gave
to me sticks in my mind
:24:44
A look of shock and desperation
and a sort of terror.
:24:48
Lots of things in a single look.
:24:53
And he said, "Are you ok?"
:24:55
I think it did occur to me to say,
"Yeah, I'm fine". That was stupid.