:41:09
I didn't know what had happened.
:41:10
What I landed on wasn't flat,
it was sloped on each side.
:41:13
And I was sliding, in the dark.
:41:22
I think I must have
fallen about 50m in total.
:41:25
I was pretty surprised to be alive.
:41:43
The head torch beam just
went down, and down, and down,
:41:46
and the darkness just ate it, just gone.
:41:50
I felt very unnerved,
very very vulnerable.
:41:54
If I had landed less than
1m further to the right,
:41:58
I would have just gone
down this huge hole.
:42:04
I got this ice screw in, pretty quickly.
:42:15
And then looked around, and thinking,
:42:18
"Jezus, it's gonna be nearly
impossible to get out of"
:42:31
My rope was going all the way up,
25m, up to this small entry hall.
:42:35
And I thought, Simon
is on the end of that.
:42:41
But I felt sure he was dead.
And it didn't mean anything.
:42:45
I just thought, "If I pull on this
rope, it will come tight on his body".
:42:48
Because he would have flown off the
cliff, on to the downside of the crevice,
:42:53
and then, Iying dead
there, like a counterweight,
:42:55
the rope would have come back up
and then dropped into the crevice.
:42:59
So I thought, if I pull on this
rope it will come tight on his body".