Michael Thexton

And I knew that in 1978, Pete had been going on a different expedition up that river.

And one of his fellow climbers had been carried into the river by a landslip.

Pete was the only person with him.

And Pete had tried to pull him out of the river and the guy had died in his arms.

And Pete then had to...

decide what to do and go and find the others and say, perhaps it died in the river.

And so walking beside the Browdo was really scary and emotional.

And then you come round a corner and you can see in the very far distance the top of Broad Peak, miles and miles and miles away.

And you walk towards it.

slowly over days.

I was there.

News came down from K2 Base Camp that Al Rouse, who was Pete's friend, who was the patron of our expedition, who'd been on the 1983 expedition, Al Rouse had died up

the mountain up on K2.

And so I knew another friend of Pete's filmmaker called Jim Curran.

I knew he was up at K2 Base Camp.

I walked up with a couple of friends to see if we could find Jim Curran because I reckon he would be on his own.

And that was extraordinary.

We were just sort of walking in the middle of this shattered wasteland.

And then here, this familiar face comes over the

over the skyline and there's Jim Curran and we walk back with him and listen to him talking about the loss of Al Rouse.