Adam Sweeney
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So I must have thought he was just asleep or something or just chilling for a second.
But yeah, look, we were in the dark, so we were lucky we didn't see too many of them.
But yeah, like that, you can see why the wrists are there.
Like you're so exhausted sitting down for a second.
You're kind of thinking, will I get back up and stuff like that?
But yeah.
Yeah, no.
Look, the risks were there, but it's so much more safe than a few years ago.
The Everest movie was the weather and stuff like that.
So that was the one thing we had to battle.
There was the jet streams and they wouldn't go this year.
They were staying up there.
So you're thinking about frostbite the whole time.
So that was a big one.
That's why we turned around the first time, essentially.
because we were absolutely freezing and stuff like that but uh look the risks are there and they will be there and i'm sure future expeditions and stuff like that but that's kind of the joys of it as well isn't it well yeah it's yeah why do we gravitate towards danger us human beings um have you any ideas there yeah it's a weird one and seeing some load of people there as well doing it so like it's obviously it's not just yourself over there doing it
Yeah, so I actually ran out of oxygen on the balcony.
So my Sherpa had gone ahead.
He got a bit snow blind, so he'd gone ahead.
So just myself, it took me, I would say, four hours more than it should have taken me to get back down to Camp 4.