The question
How close have you come to dying?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
A recurring Guardian Q&A prompt asked directly across respondents and years.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
I made a solo attempt at the Matterhorn in 1996 and came very close to falling. I waited until the dawn light came, so I could retrace my route, but I was hanging off my ice axes for 45 minutes.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 1 July 2017 source ↗
When I rode on the back of a motorbike from London to Rome with my eyes closed the entire way.
In April 2015 I nearly died, as my heart was finding it too difficult to keep my smoke-destroyed lungs going.
Last year when I had a pulmonary embolism – it was a very scary time.
Falling off what we in Middlesbrough call a “tarzy”, a bungee rope. I was swinging on it, fell and broke my arm.
Preferably not as the guy who played Gollum.
When my wife Lorraine and I got together in 1990. We were in a play at the Royal Exchange theatre in Manchester when we suddenly realised we were falling in love.
23 June last year. The fact that certain people have chosen for us to come out of Europe is one of the saddest, divisive and unthought-through events in my lifetime.
To see a united Labour party.
Being the father of three children.
Putting ball bearings into Mum roll-on deodorant bottles in a factory, one summer when I was 17.
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