Joe Simpson and Simon Yates

I’d have just stopped, gone to meet my father.

We were both keen to go on to bigger mountains.

We were quite matter- of-fact about what happened.

Start your Independent Premium subscription today.Are you sure you want to mark this comment as inappropriate?Are you sure you want to delete this comment?Independent Premium Comments can be posted by members of our membership scheme, Independent Premium. On the third day I decided to pack up; there was no point staying; I was asleep in the tent when I was woken by Joe's voice, calling my name. What he should really have said was, "I'll go off and get some help," which would have been a euphemism for, "You've had it." Simon couldn't support the strain and I was dragging him down with me. The rope between two climbers is symbolic of trust and to cut it is viewed as a selfish act.

In 1985, Simpson, then 25, together with his 21-year-old climbing partner Simon Yates, set off to climb the west face of Siula Grande, a 6,344m-high rock face in the Peruvian Andes. What's important is that Joe didn't think that, and the first thing he did when he crawled back into camp was to thank me for trying to get him down.In mountaineering you have to make logical, cold decisions. We chose to go down the North Ridge, as we thought it would be simpler than the West Face we had just come up, but it proved to be just as bad. they can to create a true meeting of independent Premium.

His autobiography, Against the Wall, has just been published.

Simon and I worked through the winter to get the money for a trip to the Peruvian Andes in 1985, where we aimed to do the previously unclimbed West Face of Siula Grande.Sharing the full story, not just the headlinesWe were experienced climbers, but we'd never been to that altitude before: Siula Grande is 6,356m high, just under 21,000ft.

As it happens, in both instances they have. will be published daily in dedicated articles. At the end of the summer Joe decided to come and live in Sheffield, where I was living, because there was a big climbing scene there. All I thought was he had done the most extraordinary thing: he’d lowered me the best part of 3,000ft single-handedly down the side of a mountain. It was something we drew a line under there and then, although it was part of Joe's life longer, as he suffered more mental and physical trauma than me.I see us always being friends. We knew that we'd be doing a serious route and that a lot of people had failed it. At the time it was the only thing I could have done. For someone with two working legs, getting back to base camp would have taken five or six hours, but dragging myself took me four days, with no food or water. We were still at 20,000ft, and I thought that we had both had it. I spent the night in a snow-hole; there was nothing I could do until morning. He obviously knew that this could kill me, but he had no choice.At the foot of the cliff there was a massive crevasse which I fell into.

Yates clung on to him for nearly 90 minutes. to your comment. Sometimes someone who thinks what I did was unacceptable will come up and verbally assault me.

!The best in film, music, TV & radio straight to Register with your social account You can find our Community Guidelines in full Create a commenting name to join the debateCreate a commenting name to join the debateCreate a commenting name to join the debateYou can find our Community Guidelines in full Create a commenting name to join the debateCreate a commenting name to join the debateCreate a commenting name to join the debateEnter your email to follow new comments on this article.Are you sure you want to submit this vote?Are you sure you want to mark this comment as inappropriate?Want to discuss real-world problems, be involved in the most engaging discussions and hear from the journalists? the same level of attention, but we have preserved this area in the interests of open debate. When we meet up we have a few beers and catch up on what we have both been doing. Joe and I got on well, drank a lot of cheap red wine and did some climbing.I think the idea of making a trip to Peru the following year was first mooted during that summer in the Alps. The relief at getting to the top was short-lived.

The mountaineer Simon Yates, 33, was born in Leicestershire. I felt a tug on the rope, and when I caught up with Joe and discovered he had broken his leg, I felt pretty bloody horrified.

Want to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later? It would have been totally illogical for Simon to die with me. We could see the glacier not far below, and as it was bitterly cold we decided to keep going .In the darkness, I accidentally lowered Joe over an ice cliff. You have to be pretty evenly matched in terms of temperament and ability.

We had seen that we were not that far from the glacier, so we decided to keep going down as there was a better chance of finding somewhere to shelter there.

There wasn't much time to think; it was just something which had to be done quickly or I `d have been dragged to my death.After I'd cut the rope I was in a state of shock and exhaustion. To an extent, a climbing partnership is a marriage of convenience. Our journalists will try to respond by joining the threads when He has twice come close to losing his life on mountaineering expeditions; the story of his extraordinary survival in the Peruvian Andes is told in his award- winning book Touching the Void.

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