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Joe Simpson: Bloody hell... I'm gonna die to Boney M.
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Joe Simpson: I didn't put a knot into the end of the rope. If there was nothing down there, I would fall, and it would be quick.
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Simon Yates: rather than just sit here, feeling sorry for myself or whatever, I'll get on with it and I'll die on the way down.
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[first lines]
Joe Simpson: We climb cause it's fun.
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Joe Simpson: You gotta make decisions. You gotta keep making decisions, even if they're wrong decisions, you know. If you don't make decisions, you're stuffed.
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Joe Simpson: We climb 'cause it's fun. And mainly it was fun. That's all we ever did. And we were fairly anarchic and fairly irresponsible, and we didn't give a damn about anyone else or anything else, and we just wanted to climb the world. And it was fun. It was just brilliant fun. And...
[pause]
Joe Simpson: Every now and then it went wildly wrong. And...
[short laugh]
Joe Simpson: then it wasn't.
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