:58:00
And I said, "Where is Joe?"
:58:04
And he just said, "Joe is dead".
:58:07
I told him the whole story,
as we walked back to the camp,
:58:11
I told him the whole
story of what had happened.
:58:15
He wasn't in the slightest bit
judgemental about me or what I'd done,
:58:23
he took it very well.
:58:41
I must have lowered myself about 25m from
where the ice screw was at the bridge.
:58:53
I was now in what seemed to
be the base of the crevice,
:58:56
that was shaped like a big hourglass.
:59:00
To the ceiling, was probably about 50m.
:59:02
I think it's as big as the
St. Paul's dome in scale.
:59:09
I remember looking down, and
there was just solid snow.
:59:13
And I thought, "this is
the bottom of the crevice!"
:59:22
About 15m away from me,
there was a slope leading up.
:59:27
Right at the top, there was the
sun coming through this hole.
:59:33
And it was shining, just this
big beam of sunlight coming in.
:59:40
This was the way out
I'd been looking for!
:59:46
I remember thinking, "Whoo, I can climb that
slope, I bloody well will climb that slope!"
:59:52
I crawled across this flat floor, and
I started crawling across on my stomach.