Chris Thrall

Would have been a two-hour trek to camp three where I figured we might be able to find a tent and find a cooker to heat up some water and this guy could get some sleep.

We were actually on our way to camp two.

This is the way the rotations are done.

And as we descended, I look back up and it was apparent that the other Sherpa wasn't joining us for whatever reason and his head torch wasn't on.

So

Well, I'm going above and beyond Claire to help the Polish climber.

This isn't really how it works.

You're not supposed to find yourself alone with another climber in pretty much the death zone, then with no oxygen and frostbite.

That's kind of a big ass to, um, get them down, down the mountain.

And, um, that was that the, as far as we were concerned, the, the, uh, the Sherpa, he was, you know, he was doing his thing, so to speak, and he's gonna any minute.

come bounding down the mountain and join us.

Yes, I'd met his family the day before he reappeared and we'd had a very emotional meeting.

They were incredibly nice to me.

They made it clear, look, we know you're just a client.

You shouldn't really be involved in this.

I offered to help them

financially with his daughter's education because you know this is crunch time claire this is something something serious has happened and uh and lo and behold we get the the news starts to trickle in the next day that um that he's been found and what have you learned about what had happened to him and how did he get back well subsequently in the most recent reports it turned out he'd run out of oxygen um

there's a whole load more to that scenario than it probably sounds.

There was oxygen on the mountain and, um, he didn't have the, you know, like I say, for some reason, he didn't communicate that, that to me.

I don't know if he felt he was, um,