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In a heartbeart Joe was falling. In another he had the breath knocked from his lungs and his bones battered. There was the scuffle of falling snow then silence.

Joe looked round. He had fallen into the crevasse and landed on a ledge 15 m (50 ft) down. Blackness of hideous depth fell away from him. He hammered in an ice screw and hung on to the life that was still improbably his. He tried to climb the rough ice wall out but fell back agonizingly onto his broken leg.

Dizzy with pain he fell into a shattered sleep.