The toughest decision of all to live or die.As they were coming down the mountain, Simpson fell and broke several bones in his right leg.
1 After three and a half days in subzero temperatures, climbers Joe Simpson and Simon Yates reached the top of the 21,000-foot Siula Grande Mountain in Peru. They didn’t realize it at the time, but their adventure was only just beginning.
3 Simpson’s accident was disaster. With no hope of rescue and no food or water, both men knew the odds were against them. If they didn’t continue down the mountain fast, they would both die.
5 Things were going well until suddenly Yates realized his injured partner was hanging in mid-air over a crevasse. He tried to pull Simpson back up, but couldn’t.
4 They decided to tie themselves to each end of a 300-foot rope, and Yates lowered Simpson down the mountain in a slow, painful process.