EmptySpace Posted November 16, 2002 Share Posted November 16, 2002 who said it? one hint, a canadian. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason_Martin Posted November 16, 2002 Share Posted November 16, 2002 Mark Twight Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sk Posted November 16, 2002 Share Posted November 16, 2002 dru! it had to have been dru Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gregm Posted November 16, 2002 Share Posted November 16, 2002 barry blanchard (?) rings a bell. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
allthumbs Posted November 16, 2002 Share Posted November 16, 2002 Exhausted by the ordeal, Twight dropped the tent. "I won't have to carry that anymore," he thought before digging a snow cave for shelter. Confused by fatigue, Doyle and Blanchard lost the ropes. The storm continued and they recalled Messner's comment — "You can't get off the face in a storm so keep lots of food in the high camps." They were out of food. "Served up death on a plain pewter plate 12,000 feet up the biggest wall in the world without any ropes...I looked into the other three sets of knowing eyes and wondered which of us would survive." The next morning they started down without much hope. They found a pack from a 1984 Japanese expedition. Three Japanese climbers disappeared in the gully where Twight's team had survived the avalanches. "We knifed it open out of curiosity- it was like a good old family style Christmas when you got every present you ever prayed for..." The pack contained two ropes and dozens of pitons. "We had just been given the keys to escape hell." Two days later they were down. Twight remembers, "Barry said it was like having sex with death." [ 11-15-2002, 04:44 PM: Message edited by: trask ] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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