Porthmadog author Mike Leaver in action in Harlech
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00:00 I was going to die, which is not in that book, it's too serious. I was actually on tooth on the Snow Rage, which was the first year in.
00:10 And I just accepted the situation I couldn't get out of. And I'll do a fun spoiler.
00:16 I've never had a mountain SU. Well, it was a 12-year-old, so a mountain SU, that was there anyway.
00:23 Even I struggle to understand, essentially, climbing up the Shepard and Ice Axe and nothing else.
00:35 I've tried it with my own strength, but I can't do it. I've tried hanging in the Ice Axe over the Arboretum and climbing up the Shepard.
00:42 But you get a lot of strength when you accept that you're going to die. You may as well just carry on, basically, and fall off while you're dying your experience.
00:51 When you think you're going to die, it's a shame you protect your own life and realise you haven't.
00:56 But it wasn't actually an accident. I am sort of very, very lucky, and it's alright.
01:01 But you think about silly things when you think your life's over, but you know, Valentine's card you should have sent around February the 14th.
01:10 And there we go. Got out of that one.