I was the third person on the rope, so he was about 30 meters from the Jamesway. The only problem now was that the signal of 4 tugs on the rope to retrieve the person was not acted upon. So we did find him, but he probably would have died from exposure. We came in and debriefed. You could sense the realization that this in fact could, and in fact, has happened many time before in Antarctica, and unfortunately will probably happen again.
Whiteouts are truly unbelievable.
We thought we were done,but, we were wrong again. Bill showed up just as we finished. We traded places with the other team and were given a new scenario to playout. This time it was a timed thing. The key though is that we had to beat the other teams time of 8 minutes and 10 seconds.