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.
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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 ↗
In my dreams: I’ll feel as if I am falling towards a white light and then suddenly I wake up.
When I was drinking, there were many times when I was out for the night and didn’t come back for a week.
Climbing Scafell Pike in the Lake District when I was about 15. The winds were about 85mph, my legs lifted and I nearly flew off. Thankfully somebody grabbed me.
Giving birth is much more treacherous than people let on.
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.
Putting ball bearings into Mum roll-on deodorant bottles in a factory, one summer when I was 17.
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.
Being the father of three children.
Preferably not as the guy who played Gollum.
To see a united Labour party.
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