: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.
:25:00
I think I said, "No,
I've broken my leg".
:25:06
Immediately, just doom. I
thought "god, we're stuffed".
:25:12
We're gonna be doing well if
either of us gets out of this now.
:25:19
It did come into my mind, just thinking,
:25:21
"If he slips off the side of the
mountain now, then I can just clear off,"
:25:25
"and leave him and get myself down and
I don't have to have all the hassle,"
:25:30
"of trying to deal with him and
with the situation we're in".
:25:38
He gave me these painkillers which
were effectively headache tablets.
:25:41
And he didn't really
talk about anything.
:25:46
It was almost as if he...
He knew, what this meant.
:25:50
He knew, and I knew, that he
was going to have to leave me.
:25:56
He could have said something like
"I'm just going to get some help"
:25:59
and I'd gone "right, yeah"