20 years ago today. Our fifth night on the mountain summit was absolutely brutal and sometime during the small hours we both succumbed to hypothermia. The rescue mission at first light - one of the most difficult in the history of the Alps - came only hours too late to save Jamie Fisher. Miraculously I was still alive, hypothermic and limbs frozen solid, but conscious. I was whisked off down to the valley to begin a very different life. I was the lucky one. RIP Jamie Fisher 1971 - 1999. Never forgotten. ...
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My great passion in life has always been mountaineering. At the height of my climbing career, tragedy struck unexpectedly when my climbing partner and I were caught for five days in a terrible storm after completing the North Face of Les Droites in the French Alps. The ensuing helicopter rescue was one of the most spectacular in the history of the Alps and made news headlines around the world. Unfortunately the rescue came too late for my partner Jamie Fisher but I survived despite severe frostbite and hypothermia. Later in hospital, all of my hands and feet had to be amputated. To read an article about the ordeal and my rescue 
Since the accident I have been active in many sporting activities including swimming, running, skiing, snow-boarding, paragliding, caving, orienteering and sailing. But it was returning to mountaineering that was to provide the greatest goal and the biggest challenge.
Three hands, Three feet, Three men… in a boat…