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25 meter of overhanging ice. No way,
I couldn't do it with a good leg.
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I knew that they were both dead. But I
couldn't just clear off and leave the camp.
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For one thing, I didn't
know anything about them,
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except for their first
names, Joe and Simon.
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I didn't know their family names,
I really knew nothing about them.
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And I had this bizarre idea, that
if they'd fallen off the mountain,
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they would have just
landed at the bottom of it.
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And I thought, perhaps from the bottom
of the glacier, I'd be able to see them.
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And set off with the aim
of going as far as I could.
:53:04
I started to go down
the glacier on my own.
:53:07
In this stage I was still certain
that I was gonna die myself.
:53:12
Crossing a glacier is very
very dangerous on your own,
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because there are crevices in
the ice, and the snow covers them.
:53:21
Fortunately I managed to find
a faint outline of our tracks,
:53:24
from when we walked in.
:53:27
It was only when I got off the glacier,
I realized that I was going to get down,
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I was going to get out of it,
:53:35
I was gonna live.
:53:50
I can't really describe how
scary the night had been.
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I thought, it would
be like that, for days.