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And I that at the far end of
it, there was a meringue dam.
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And from the top of that meringue dam,
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I would be able to look down into
the valley where the base camp was.
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In fact, I would be
able to see the tents.
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This was the first time I thought it,
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I thought, "I'm gonna make the distance,
I can actually make the distance".
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Almost as soon I thought it, the next
thought that popped into my head was,
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"Will there be anyone there?"
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I thought, "Christ, this is the
fourth day since I saw Simon",
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and as I worked it out, I thought,
"Why on earth would they be there?"
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I knew it got dark at six, and thought
"I got to get there, I got to get there",
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and I was trying to do
it as fast as possible.
1:27:00
The rest of that afternoon,
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I was plagued by this dreadful
feeling that they would have gone.
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I hadn't paid attention to what
was happening with the weather.
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Between leaving at four and getting
to the top of the meringues, about six,
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the weather had changed.
1:27:20
So when I looked down at the
valley, it was just full of clouds.
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I listened intently, hoping to hear a
whistle or an answer, a cry back, something,
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and I didn't hear anything at all.
1:27:44
and I spend a long time, sat
there, crying, not sure what to do.
1:27:50
I thought about getting
in my sleeping bag.
1:27:54
For some reason it just seemed a
bit of a pathetic way to end things,
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just in a sleeping bag.