:37:09
I think psychologically I was beaten.
:37:13
'Cause there was nothing I could do,
:37:15
so I just hung on the
rope and waited to die.
:37:20
And I think I would have died pretty soon,
actually. The wind chill was very low.
:37:38
I was literally going down the
mountain in little, jerky stages.
:37:42
'Cause this soft, sugary snow
collapsed away underneath me.
:37:48
I was expecting him to come off,
and couldn't do anything about it.
:37:53
He was gonna fall about 100m.
:37:56
50m away from me, he was gonna
fall double that, he was gonna die.
:38:02
And he really didn't know, whether I was
meters off the ground, or centimeters,
:38:06
he just didn't know. But he knew, I
think, pretty sadly, that he was gonna die.
:38:15
Then I remembered that I've got a
pen knife in the top of my rucksack.
:38:22
I took the decision pretty quickly.
:38:26
To me, it just seemed like the right
thing to do under the circumstances.
:38:35
Because there was no way that
I could maintain where I was,
:38:39
sooner or later, I was going
to be pulled from the mountain.
:38:46
I took the rucksack off, and then
unzipped the top pocket with one hand,
:38:49
and got the pen knife out.