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Show Russell Jacobs 25 November 2009 challenge, that testing of your hrmts Um, and that comes out in a moment like that, even though when you're m the middle of it, you know, it's gotta be pretty RJ: Desperate. MD: Yeah. RJ: It's desperate. It's defimtely it's a feather, for sure. I mean, you, you realize what you can endure. You really do, and it's, 1t' s I can sort of, uh, equate it with, you know, the pioneers that came West from Illmois I mean, they endured some very hardships, many of them penshed as history has revealed. Uh, but as a climber, I said, well, you made 1t through You made it through this forced bivouac And it didn't tum me m the other d1rection and give me a negative, um, feelmg about it. It actually mspired me. MD: Um-hum. RJ: And 1t I thought, well, shoot I'm I made it through this. What else can I do? MD: Right. RJ: I mean not that I wanted to get m that situation agam, even though not knowmg 1t at the time, I would be. Uh, and would have to you know, I had to get I had to make some, um, decisions m the backcountry where 1t was impossible to get back. MD: Uh-huh. RJ: But I just reflected on my survival that I had m the Andes. And, uh, you, you know what you needed you know what you need to do MD: Um-huh. RJ: And, uh, you Just go, well, here we go again. You know, we'll just hang out here and wait for the sun to nse and collect our belongmgs and get back to camp MD: Um-huh. 8 |
