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"Troll Wall"

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One summer day in 2006
a mountaineer is observed -

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- midway up the Trollveggen
("Troll Wall") by a group of tourists.

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He has not moved for several hours.

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We were here on Friday to see some
Russians who went a different route.

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The Russian climbers have not yet
discovered the other climber.

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But on the ground it's clear
that something is wrong.

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We stood and watched the Russians
through the binoculars.

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We saw that he simply hung there.

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We figured that he probably
had fallen; he didn't move.

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One of the witnesses in the parking lot
shot video through the binoculars.

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What we saw was his bag.

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But it took a long time to see him;
he was almost one with the mountain.

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What we really saw was his helmet
that had a pretty sharp blue.

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Had it not been for the helmet,
we would hardly have noticed him.

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We have received a new assignment,
on the Trollveggen.

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When 330 Squadron from Ørlandet
arrive at Trollveggen, -

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- the climber has hung
motionless for six hours.

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Trollveggen is one of Norway's
most dangerous places for rescue work.

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Then, you do get lots of thoughts.

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Trollveggen is a special place to
pursue a rescue in.

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It's unpredictable in terms of 
what happens on the rock wall.

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(Rescuer for 7 years. Partnered, 3 children.)

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Dangerous to fly there. We always wonder
if we can manage a mission on Trollweggen.

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We had to first sit and see where he was
before we could make a decision on it.

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Flight Chief, 8 years. Partnered, 2 kids.

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They initially thought that he hung out
up there and just had lunch at twelve.

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Later, they saw that he still 
hung in the same position.

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The Russian climbing team
sees the helicopter.

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Coming this way, you say?

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They're just coming over
to see how things are.

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The problem with the Trollveggen is -

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- that there's lots of loose rock,
rotten rock. It breaks off fairly often.

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The danger for us is that if a stone
hits the rotor, we are likely to crash.

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A human body in the Trollveggen is
very small when you stand at a distance.

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We worked a little to locate him.

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He hung in an odd position: upside down
with his legs at the top and head down.

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Motionless. There's a lot of rope around
him. Clearly he had fallen pretty far.

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We saw no movement or 
reaction from the climber -

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- which could let us 
believe he was alive.

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After taking a look at the climber, -

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- they must together consider whether
they will carry out the mission.

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We stated clearly that
if anyone had objections, -

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- they should say so, and they
could skip the attempt.

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I felt no pressure about my decision.

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I could go down in the Trollveggen
and pick him out.

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The Captain was very clear on the fact
that it was my choice.

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Some have agreed to make a quick try.

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But if I'm not feeling good with it,
then we'll cancel the attempt.

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He's just hanging on the wall.

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So we landed down on the meadow
again and shut off the machine.

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I went round and round,
completely alone, thinking:

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If he's alive or not, the next of kin
will want to have him down.

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What equipment do I have to use?
The way to do it.

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Our engineer came over alone, clapped me
on the shoulder and said:

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"Finn-Aage, let's go in and get him, so
we can go home and watch a bit of TV."

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It was just what I needed.
"Yes, let's go get him."

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While the crew has been 
getting ready and ascending, -

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- he has hung in the same position
for nine hours.

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I was prepared that I would 
recover a dead guy.

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That made for a creepy tone
throughout the mission.

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We rose high above the climber.
I secured my gear and was hoisted down -

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- quite far from the Trollveggen.

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The operation must be done fast to avoid a rockslide.

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A stone in the rotor can crash the helicopter.

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We picked a procedure
that was not quite normal for us.

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We hoisted our man down into
the rescue, far away from the wall...

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...to minimize the time near the wall.

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We paid out the lift wire quite far down.

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Eventually we moved closer to the climber.

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It's very hard for the observer to direct -

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- with such a long wire and 
with such poor height references.

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It was an achievement to get me in
as quickly as they did.

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It was a bit of "arms and legs"
before I got a sling on him -

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- and connected him to the lift hook.

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All the rope around him was critical -

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- I had trouble cutting
all the ropes hanging him up.

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He was anchored to the rock wall.
Then I lost my knife -

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- after I cut the first rope.
It tumbled down the cliff.

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Luckily, I carry an extra knife on my boot.

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After that I cut the rest of the rope off him.

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Then they lifted us out pretty fast.

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The climber was not my focus then.
I was sure he was dead.

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He hung in a very strange position.

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A meter under my foot.

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He hung there like a lifeless person.

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It was important to get him
up in the machine -

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- and get him laid on the stretcher 
in a "bodybag" which we have.

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As he lay on the floor there, -

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- I felt like he moved his face.

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I began to examine him
rather thoroughly after that.

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I thought: Is he alive?

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Suddenly I saw that his chest rose, -

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- and he made a small movement
with his eyebrows. I got all excited -

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- and shouted at the intercom system
in the helicopter that "He is alive!"

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They told us his condition was critical.

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He had suffered severe
head and neck injuries.

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The doctor told us he would be
paralyzed from the neck down, -

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And, quite possibly be brain damaged.

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My reaction was:
I'd rather he was dead,

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because there's just no 
quality of life at all.

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I remember just sitting, holding his hand.

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And I thought to myself, one day, 
that hand is going to move.

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There's going to be a response.

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But each day went by,
and nothing happened.

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I thought: I'd rather 
it had happened to me.

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I voiced this, and Keith said: You know,
I've was thinking the same thing.

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And my daughter said: It's incredible, at that 
moment in time, I was thinking exactly the same!

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That was three of us.

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So when Michael came 'round, we were
talking to him. We told him this.

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He thought for a while, and he said:

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Yes, I'd rather it had been you, too.

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So we knew then that we had Michael back,
that brain damage wasn't a problem.

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I like climbing 
because it's so involved.

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You've got to be physically fit
and very strong.

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You need good technique.

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You need to be quite mentally 
prepared for it and confident.

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I started climbing when I was a
young chap, about 13.

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I started climbing local cliffs
where I lived.

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And finally throughout the world,
Canada and Europe.

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The Troll Wall is a very famous wall,
in Britain.

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I'd heard of it through magazines, 
books, and just talking to people.

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I first arrived at about
two o'clock in the morning.

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So the light wasn't brilliant, but it
was monstrous, absolutely monstrous.

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At first I felt a bit awestruck by it.
But after 10-15 minutes -

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- I got excited that I was 
going to go up and climb it.

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It was really a nice sunny day.
I woke up early and went off -

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- along the railway line, over the river
and up through the woods.

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It took Michael 18 hours to get
to where the route starts.

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He climbed alone, and chose a route
that's very prone to rock falls.

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The day after starting his climb.

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At 5 o'clock in the morning I ate 
breakfast and started to climb.

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The rock was pretty loose.

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I climbed about five rope lengths,
five pitches.

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I was approaching the area where I was
definitely out of danger of rockfall.

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I felt quite good about that, relaxed
and happy with the way things were going.

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Next thing I remember is a grinding,
rumbling noise, and feeling under me.

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And the whole piece of rock I was on
slipped away - with me on it.

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I remember falling. And thinking,
wow, this is a really long fall.

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About 40 meters. I don't remember the end of 
the fall, I just remember falling a long long way.

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Next thing I remember after falling, I was 
waking up, not really knowing where I was.

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Hanging upside down and looking around.

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Assessing where I was, and remembering
that I was on the Troll Wall.

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Then I remembered that fall.

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I remember trying to move my arms, 
and not being able to move them at all.

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And neither my legs.

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And I had a really bad pain in my neck.
Excruciating pain in my neck.

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I put two and two together and realized
that I was paralyzed from the neck down.

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And that self-rescue wasn't an option.
Plus I wasn't able to use my mobile phone.

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I think my thoughts were pretty much, "this is it."

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I knew it was pretty cold, so I thought 
I'd die of either cold or starvation.

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I didn't want to hang there for a day
or two days, slowly dying.

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So I did actually try to stop... 
end it myself.  Which is -

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- quite tricky when you're 
paralyzed from the neck down.

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I tried to stop breathing, which doesn't
work. The natural reflex kicks in.

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I also tried to hit my head against the wall,
because my neck was excruciating pain.

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I just really didn't want to hang there 
for a day, with this pain, -

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- knowing that in the end, all that would
happen was I would die anyway.

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So I hit my head on the wall, but I had
a helmet on, so that did no good.

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I'm not really sure what happened,
but at some point I blacked out.

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Through hypothermia or if a rock hit me,
I don't know.

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It's emotionally very powerful to
understand that he's alive.

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Then I had some thoughts about that -

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- yes, but I treated him quite
horribly on the wall, -

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- as if he was dead already.
Did I inflict more harm on him?

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Is it my fault that he is what
he has become?

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I work with many people and talked
with people, with the crew, -

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- with the climbers.
They all agree in unison -

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- that we did what we could. We
couldn't have done it any other way.

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Had we not done what we did,
he would have been dead in days.

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From hanging on that wall.

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Going from being a climber, to 
becoming completely dependant 

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upon 24 hours a day nursing care -

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- was at first, I found,
very difficult.

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There was a period of time, probably,
a few months after my accident -

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- where I did think it would be better
if I hadn't survived the fall.

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But I'd say now, definitely, without
doubt, I'm very glad I survived.

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I'd really like to go back to Norway
to meet the rescue team.

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And personally say
"thank you" to them, -

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- and meet the people who,  without which,
I wouldn't be able to be here today.

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(9:00 News)

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Officials are now considering letting
injured base jumpers and mountain climbers -

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- just stay hanging on the wall.

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The job of getting them out
is often very risky.

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This Briton, hanging under the helicopter
alive, seriously injured and unconscious.

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Just minutes after the helicopter had
left the place, just like that.

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Shortly after the rescue operation -

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- exactly what the Sea King crew feared.

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A large rockslide started in the same
place where they picked up Michael.

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I have a partner and 3 kids. They would
now be with my dad and his girlfriend.

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I'm not the type that
takes a mission "at any cost", -

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- though perhaps many of us
thought so, then and there.

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After the accident with Michael,
the police have introduced a ban -

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- on rescue operations
in parts of the Trollveggen.

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Marked in red on the map here.
Michael hung in the area here.

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It's dangerous to fly in there -

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- because it breeds a lot of rocks down
the mountain. Sometimes large landslides.

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If we were to repeat
the mission of the Trollveggen, -

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- I'd probably not do it.

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I'm going to miss you.
Are you going on Friday?

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Next week, I think.
Hopefully.

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A year after the accident Michael feels
healthy enough to return to Trollveggen.

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He has agreed to meet
his rescuers again.

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I'll remember you in prayer.
Remember prayer does work.

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It has worked for Michael,
it's got to work for me!

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We're driving to Åndalsnes to meet the
helicopter rescue crew with the Sea King.

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It's a little tense, this.

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Yes, very interesting to meet him again
and see how it goes with him.

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I've thought a lot about it, so
it will be fun to see him again.

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Should be fun to hear what he
remembers before and after.

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Just have to admit that I hope he
doesn't remember any of the extraction.

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-It was the way we had to do it.
-The shortest way. That's the tension.

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All I guarantee you 
is we picked him good.

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If we manage to get up in the helicopter
and fly around to the Troll Wall, -

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- suppose it'll be really nice to see if 
my equipment is still hanging there.

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I'll be able to nip down and
get my passport back.

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-Hello, Michael.
-Hello.

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-Nice to meet you. Very nice to meet you.
-Nice to meet you too.

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I'm Finn.
Finn: rescue man.

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-Hello, how are you doing?
-It's amazing to meet you.

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So, were you all 
on the rescue last year?

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Same crew, yes.

217
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Well, thank you.

218
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Doesn't quite seem enough,
to say that...

219
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-You want to come fly and have a look?
-That'd be absolutely great. Thank you.

220
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-See if we can spot some of the equipment, 
as well, that was left behind there.

221
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-Get my passport back?
-I'm not sure we're gonna try that.

222
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If it wasn't for you guys, I would
actually probably still be up there.

223
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-There's a chance, isn't there?
-Yes.

224
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I fell unconscious,
but I was awake for some time.

225
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I knew that I wasn't going to get rescued,
'cause I knew they didn't have rescue
so knew that I was dead, really.

226
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So to wake up a few weeks later,
amazing, really.

227
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Three, two, one ...

228
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I felt quite nervous coming to meet you.
- You are?

229
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I took you in your harness with a sling,
held you in my hand here when I cut the rope.

230
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Then you fell a little bit down, so I was
afraid to lose you, up in the mountain.

231
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Quite emotional, really.

232
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I've wanted to do this from 
when I left Norway, even 
when I was in the Norwegian hospital.

233
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To come back and meet them, because
I know that they risked their lives.

234
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They actually made a decision
against what was advised.

235
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There's nothing I could really do
which would thank them enough.

236
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But coming over to see them, and meet the
rescue crew, is one of the things I can do ...

237
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-Ready, Michael?
-Yes, ready, thanks.

238
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It's much, much easier for us
to reach the top.

239
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I didn't think of that after
all these years of climbing.

240
00:24:22,600 --> 00:24:27,520
If you are not afraid of flying,
we could go over the top.

240
00:24:34,500 --> 00:24:38,520
Whoa! (laughing)

241
00:24:40,480 --> 00:24:42,400
Really great.

242
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This is spectacular.

243
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Up here, now, Michael, we'll try to point out
approximately where we found you.

244
00:24:56,640 --> 00:24:58,580
Ok, that's great.

245
00:24:58,680 --> 00:25:03,920
You can actually see some equipment in there 
now. See, that's your yellow bag in there.

246
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You see it there, just 
below the patch of snow?

247
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Yeah, I can, yeah. Wow.

248
00:25:10,640 --> 00:25:12,940
-The yellow and red there?
-Yeah, yeah, I see it!

249
00:25:13,060 --> 00:25:16,360
That's your equipment, you were
hanging just below the yellow bag.

250
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Wow, it's so small.

251
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- It's pretty awesome.
- It's amazing.

252
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I felt in a way that we were 
back to the day we picked him.

253
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Equipment bags hung exactly the 
same way today as a year ago.

254
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In a way, only Michael was missing
from there. Pretty special to see it.

255
00:26:02,200 --> 00:26:07,680
Even when we first planned 
coming over here to see you all, -

256
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- I was trying to think: what on earth
can you say, what can I say...  --To us?

257
00:26:14,920 --> 00:26:19,160
Anything one can say doesn't seem
even close to adequate.

258
00:26:20,960 --> 00:26:24,200
For me personally it's very good to hear -

259
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- that you couldn't feel anything
when I was on the wall.  --I couldn't.

260
00:26:28,560 --> 00:26:32,880
When I woke up after I'd fallen, I couldn't
move anything from the neck down.

261
00:26:32,960 --> 00:26:36,480
So any damage was done,
had been done, when I fell off.

262
00:26:37,640 --> 00:26:41,000
It was very good to meet him again.

263
00:26:41,080 --> 00:26:45,680
I have received answers to 
some of the questions I had.

264
00:26:45,760 --> 00:26:49,560
For me it was very good
to see him again.

265
00:26:49,640 --> 00:26:52,840
And get the answers
that I needed.

266
00:26:54,880 --> 00:26:57,920
Yeah, I really enjoyed
getting up in the helicopter.

267
00:26:58,000 --> 00:27:02,560
It's actually the first time I've
been up in a helicopter conscious.

268
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It was very nice to meet you.
- So, good trip home to England.

269
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-Bye.
-Thank you.

270
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Today, meeting the rescue crew, getting to talk 
with them, getting taken up in the helicopter, -

271
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- is definitely one of the most
memorable experiences of my life.

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(All personnel and families have given
consent to appear in this series.)

273
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(Thanks to the entire 330 Squadron
and to all who participated.)

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Norwegian subtitles:
Dag H. Christensen

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Engish subtitles: Lex Ein
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