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Show Russell Jacobs 31 March 2010 MD: Well, that's what kind of surprised me. When, uh, you know ... it sounds like you kind of almost mentally defeat yourself as soon as like you get yourself pumped up that you need this gear and you have this gear and you lose it, and then that sort of deflates the momentum there. RJ: It does. MD:Um-hmm. RJ: And it did. It did. 'Cause we, I mean, we went out of our way, and we knew we needed them, those RP's, I mean, or I wouldn't have borrowed them. You know, I mean, they're pieces that you never use. You never use them. Never. I mean, they're so tiny that there's only a few pitches in the whole world really, most of them are on El Cap. You know, one little piece of one pitch on one, or maybe a half a dozen routes, on El Cap. That's it. One pitch of which is on The Nose. You certainly didn't need them on the Salathe. You know, and after I'd lost them, our hearts just sank. Now, what do we do? We're, you know, we're .. .it's over for us. And we both knew it. We both felt it. And our. .. especially Tim, I mean, he was hurt the worst, I think. I mean, I felt bad enough, but I deprived him of success, which was, I felt, even worse, because he wasn't able to ... I mean, he already failed on The Shield. Now, he's failed on The Nose, you know. So, you know, I let him down. But we came back the next year. Tim and I came back the next year, so this is number four in four years. Every summer in four years. I was 41. And made the attempt again. And we got up to Sickle Ledge, and I felt something was wrong. You know, I couldn't recover. Every time, you know, I'd get to the end of a pitch, I couldn't recover my strength. It felt like my strength was just being drained right out of my feet. And I didn't know what was wrong. And I just realized I 29 |
