1 2 3

The only low point of the day for me was when I was doing the self-extraction from the crevasse. I was near the lip of the edge after about a 20 foot ice climb when I slipped and in attempting to stabilize myself using my left foot at an odd angle, my knee cap popped again. The pain drove me into the ice wall and the initial contact was the point of the knee which then drove the cap back into place. The pain was beyond belief. I was pulled up onto the snow where I began gagging from the pain, turned white, and went into minor shock. Now the most amazing thing was that I was back on my feet in an hour, and able to walk unassisted the 2 P hours back to the hut. The oil rig rescue worker who was on our team and one of the guides were able to tape up the brace I already had on the knee so that I could walk, with the knee completely unable to move laterally.