Stuart Morris
Appearances
Uinta Triangle
Aspiring
I've made a couple of attempts on Mount Aspiring, and the particular point I think where he had his accident is, yeah, it's brutal in there if the weather goes.
Uinta Triangle
Aspiring
Yeah, I'm not sure how Eric felt about that, because I could imagine he was a traditionalist in that he probably wanted to carry his own stuff.
Uinta Triangle
Aspiring
You're literally flying through mountains and you just don't realize that in the distance there's a little rectangle and that's the landing strip.
Uinta Triangle
Aspiring
It's amazing because you can see the pilots making this physical effort to control the plane. They have to obviously use as much of the runway as they can because they need it. That's a very exciting start to the trip.
Uinta Triangle
Aspiring
People in the group weren't necessarily familiar with crampons and axes and harnesses. So a bit of a training session for everyone on just moving on a glacier.
Uinta Triangle
Aspiring
All this stuff wasn't always going to be necessary, but it was just about being safe. It's not like you're just going to be handed a set of crampons and an ice axe and we'll see you at the top sort of scenario. It's just like, so you know what it feels like.
Uinta Triangle
Aspiring
To cross the mirror, we didn't even need it. It was a well-worn path, even though it was on ice, and we just sort of plodded along and safely got up and over.
Uinta Triangle
Aspiring
I think he was missing people back at home, but he was also really overwhelmed by the environment and the experience as well.
Uinta Triangle
Aspiring
They got up in the morning to do that and started moving up the snow slope towards Merra Peak. And at some point it turned around either through a combination of weather and or time.
Uinta Triangle
Aspiring
But then there was the difficulties of the weather, getting a helicopter up.