:29:02
wondering if he was pissed
off with the whole thing.
:29:07
I couldn't take too much notice
unfortunately of these cries of pain,
:29:11
because we got to go down.
:29:20
We would dig these holes from
the sitting in the powder snow,
:29:23
and they would last about the length
of the time it took to lower me.
:29:27
And in fact they were
crumbling around him.
:29:30
And he was lowering me on a 9mm,
well 8.8mm rope. That's that thick.
:29:33
But hands sort of frozen.
:29:36
What he did was quite extraordinary,
:29:38
and I've never heard of any single
handed mountain rescue like that.
:29:56
We were now lowering in a full storm. I
don't know what the wind chill factor was,
:29:59
but it would be like -80
or something like that.
:30:03
I lost a liter of blood in my leg,
I was in shock and severly dehydrated
:30:09
It was a point where we should have
dug a snow cave and taken shelter,
:30:13
got in our sleeping bags and
made a hot brew, and rehydrate.
:30:18
We couldn't, 'cause we'd run out of gas.
:30:20
And we just lost control at this point
because we couldn't dig a snow cave,
:30:24
and risk getting trapped by
a storm that didn't break.