Richard Wright

Then came the day of rescue trucks, floodlights, bullhorns and a crowd of morbidly curious onlookers, who hung around the base of the Bastille watching as Hugh and I tried to descend from Art’s Spar on the Redgarden Wall.

A blown rappel usually results in death, but luckily we don’t end there in this Epic. Listen as Richard Wright recalls his partner's close call as his rappel device falls hundreds of feet below them.