The Descent

After arriving to the top of the mountain, the snow was starting to fall, the same as the night before. The four mates are enjoying the terrific landscape, which was absolutely stunning, gripping and uplifting. Moreover, it was out of the blue. Nevertheless, they had to come back to their camp. Not only did they not have any food or coats to spend the night there, but they also had an injured mate, who was on one of the tent with an important hairline fracture in one on his legs plus the arm´s ligaments entirely tored. He had too much pain in order to continue the ascent, so he couldn´t continue it and he stayed at the camp.

For that reason, having strolled a little along the top, the four colleages started the descent, which was extremely dangerous plus risky because they didn´t have any torch, nor flashlight. They didn´t measure well their forces and time. All of them descended in a total silence. Nobody spoke during all of it. The four were afraid by their injured mate and for themselves too. In fact, the places they wanted to be was their homes with their relatives instead of to be playing with their lives.

After seven hours they arrived to their camp, completely safe and sound. Their fellow was lying inside the tent, terribly pale and exhausted. Despite that, he nerviously grinned while the rest of the team uncontrollably sobbed. The more he grinned, the more the rest sobbed. The next day, a huge helicopter went to pick them up. All of them shouted with emotion. After their rescue, nothing will ever be the same.