Michael Thexton

And of course, one of the strangest things about that, I was still on my exam course.

I knew none of this.

It took two weeks for that news to get out.

And the leaders of the expedition sent Greg

and another person down the mountain as quickly as possible because they wanted, if possible, to get the truth out before rumours started to filter out that a British climber had died.

And so they trekked out as fast as possible, ended up making a phone call to Doug Scott's wife, who phoned my parents.

That was two weeks later.

And I had in that time sat my final exams, you know, which I would not have been able to do if I'd known what was going on in Pakistan.

It was an utterly miserable time.

I mean, we all came together.

We looked after each other.

There's a thing about remembering how much you love the rest of your family when you've lost somebody.

But it was miserable.

I think I was there when we took him to the airport.

So I guess we took him to the airport at the beginning of May.

or the very end of april to catch the plane to pakistan how did your parents feel about him doing these sorts of uh expeditions and the the mountain climbing and all the rest of it it's one of those things that as a as a young man without children of my own you know i never really understood what my parents must have felt yeah um and then later you think oh oh the

You know, you worry about your children when they go to the shops.

Yeah, absolutely.

My parents worried about him.

Of course they did.