and i'd arranged to meet up with dom willens to attempt the north wall of the eiger. time my horizons were not himalayan, even though i'd done two of the peaks. my horizons was climbing in the alps, and that what fuelled my ambition. and the north wall of the eiger, anybody who looks at it and is going off for a day of gentle skiing will think, how one earth could anybody go up that? you were telling me earlier, you've climbed the old man of hoy on the edge of the orkney islands. when you were 80. goodness me. climbing the old man of hoy when i was 80, we made the first attempt in 1966. with tom patey. very famous television... and rusty bailey. magnificent. the greatest television extravaganza of all time. the biggest outdoor broadcast ever as well. then it was leo holding, one of our brilliant young climbers, he was the youngest person ever to have climbed the old man of hoy and he's a good friend. it was his idea. he said, chris, let's go and do it together. i climbed it when i was 11, i'm quite sure you're going to be the oldest at 80. which i was. and so we got t