fell and broke his knee. Quickly, yates tied a rope to himself and then to his friend. he began lowering simpson down the mountain and, for hours and hours,yates helped simpson get down the mountain. they were getting close to the glacier at the bottom of the mountain but suddenly simpson slipped . this time he went over the edge of a cliff, he was hanging in mid-air. simpson shouted up rotates, but the wind was blowing loudly and yates couldn't hear him.
yates didn't know what was happening below. he waited for an hour but the rope was too heavy and it was pulling yates down the mountain towards the cliff. he had two choices: hold the rope but then both of for yates but,at the last second, yates cut the rope and saved himself. immediately simpson fell thirty metres into a crevasse