The missing toothbrush was nothing compared with the fact that the spacecraft was orientated to ascend, not descend. I would have gone up and up instead of going back down to the ground.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
It is the old battle, between those who use a toothbrush and those who don't.
After being once in space, I was keen to go back there. But it didn't happen.
Faced with the choice of enduring a bad toothache or going to the dentist, we generally tried to ride out the bad tooth.
Sometimes it was tough doing take after take upside down! I did a lot of that sort of thing.
I explained I wanted to descend as quickly as possible to camp IV in order to warm myself and gather a supply of hot drink and oxygen in the event I might need to go back up the mountain to assist descending climbers.
No, I didn't work it out upside down, I never turned it around.
The Spanish troops returned and we could yet discover the grass beaten down in the direction which they went.
Give yourself permission to get the most out of your life. If you're spending all your time scrubbing corners with a toothbrush, you're kind of missing the point. Taking shortcuts doesn't mean shortcutting the end result.
Concerned that others were not coming onto the summit and because I had no radio link to those below me, I began to wonder if there were difficulties down the mountain. I made the decision to descend.
The moment you've brought a toothbrush to work, then you're getting into crunch time.