Chris Thrall

you know, obliged to kind of take control of his situation and not be saying to a client, Hey, look, I've got no, I have no, I can only sort of speculate.

But, um, yeah, in the meantime, I'm coming down the mountain in what, what was extremely changeable weather.

A lot of time it was white out.

A lot of time the ropes were covered with snow.

Um,

So we were having to guess, not sort of, you know, make an educated guess which way down.

I mean, it's a huge mountain, one foot wrong and you could end up in a crevasse.

No, I've requested a chat via, you know, WhatsApp or something, but he was in the ICU already.

When I asked, they were saying, you know, obviously the doctors were recommending that he doesn't speak to anyone whilst he was in there.

Yes, from everything that we see, it's, you know, how can you say?

I'd say good result all round, but it's certainly an awful lot better than it could have been, Clare.

You know, you don't, when you're in the death zone, you don't really have any chance, Clare, to be getting emotional.

You've got to focus on

you know, in this case, helping the other climber down.

It's the high mountains.

It's incredibly serious.

If it wasn't hard, then obviously thousands more people would attempt it every year.

And you've got to kind of take these things on the chin.

I'm not trying to sound cold or callous, but, you know, this is...

Like I say, if it was easy, everybody would do it.