Planning to Get to the Archway
It took James some time to finally arrive at a plan he was comfortable with. “There were lots of trees around so I had an abundance of sticks I could prop myself up with. Braking off two large branches that looked like they could support my weight, I sharpened them on one end with the camping knife I always carried. Sticking the sharp end into the soft ground beneath the archway, I carefully stood on them so as to reach the base of the archway and pull myself up,” he later recounted.