 He spent the remaining part of his life dedicated to searching for that anomaly on Ararat in eastern Turkey, making some nine climbs on the mountain, nearly losing his life on one occasion. Overnighted, exposed in the elements, and they couldn't get to him. But when they did, they feared that he was going to be dead. When they got to him the next morning, he was alive, but just barely. And he was hospitalized for four days.