Finding the equipment and an instructor wasn't difficult, but admitting acrophobia was more than I was willing to expose. |
At half past midnight in the bar of the Bull Bay Hotel I meet Pat, an old diving instructor. |
The instructor who assisted her on the way down said that she did a textbook abseil. |
She reads novels, newspapers, medical journals and science periodicals, and as a writing instructor, she reads teaching books. |
While climbing, my instructor quickly directed me to switch to the small-deck radio frequency to get ahead of the game. |
Through the fortunate accident of having a tedious instructor I had gained a year! |