Michael Thexton

And he looked so ripped.

And all of the girls, you know, were looking at this picture and sort of looking at me and thinking, this is your brother?

And so was I. And at that time, while I was studying my final exams, he was off in northern Pakistan on an expedition that was supposed to climb K2.

Yeah.

And he didn't come back.

So he was on an expedition which was led by Al Rouse and Doug Scott, who are both famous British climbers,

And they collected together a group of other climbers.

Pete made great friends with a man called Greg Child, who he'd not met before the expedition.

And they climbed together.

They climbed with Doug Scott a mountain called Lobsang Spire, which is not that high, but is a very difficult technical climb.

rock climb but then they moved on to base of k2 you've got k2 sort of standing on one side and then this other mountain broad peak which is one of the 8 000 meter peaks there are 14 pigs that are over 8 8 000 meters and it's regarded as the easy one you know i mean you get over 8 000 meters you are dying but broad peak

is sort of considered just a walk.

And so they were going to practice on that and get used to what it was like being at that altitude without the technical difficulty, because K2 is considered probably the hardest of all the 8,000 metre peaks, harder than Everest to get up.

And so they were climbing this mountain in pairs.

Pete climbed with Greg.

and they would go up to a top camp which is something like 22 000 feet and then the idea was that they would climb to the top come back down to that camp come down and once they'd all done that they would go and climb k2 pete and greg spend the night at the top camp and in the early hours of the morning made their way to the top ridge at around 8 000 meters where you traverse along the ridge for around 30 minutes before you then descend back down

Greg started to be ill.

He was complaining that his headache... I mean, you always have a headache at that altitude, but his headache was getting worse.

He was wondering whether he was getting cerebral edema, which is the leaking of fluid into the brain, acute mountain sickness.

And so they had a discussion, and...