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Show Russell Jacobs 25 November 2009 know? So, uh, me and John Meadows, one of the partners on the trip, I think we were the entertainers for the evening. Uh, Les and Terry, they kind of took a back seat and just listened. And uh, it was their feet that got frostbitten. I sort of loosened my boots and wiggled my toes all night along. And I don't know that they did, but, uh, I think because of our stories and ... I mean, we got down to, you know, very personal things. Uh, and, you know, we talked about just about everything. Just to stay awake. MD: Um-hum. RJ: And uh, we managed to get through the night, and the next morning hammered, you know, frozen, cold, hungry, beat up, tired. Uh, we had just enough light, uh, to realize where we were. And we managed to actually down climb the actual route. We actually found the route on our way down. Uh, and made it back, made it back to our base camp. And the gentlemen, the two gentlemen who got frostbitten feet. .. Les was probably the worst of the two. He stayed in camp for about four or five days before he actually could do anything. And uh, we had a camp guard that we hired. Uh, his name was Jorasmo. And uh, he just made sure that the vultures didn't come down and eat the live chickens that he went down to pick up and brought back up to us to cook midway through our sixteen days. And camp robbers. People that would come up and, you know, steal whatever they could. I mean, it's a third world country and depressed. And we just played it safe by hiring him to stay with our camp. MD: Um-hum. So what I was thinking is, you know, when you're in that moment right there, obviously it's not pleasant, but then afterwards those are the kind of moments that kind of, like you said, define, um, what the experience of climbing kind of means to you in its extreme. Um, why you do it, what you get out of it. You know, it's that the 7 |
