"He'd used a ladder to get three ... maybe four meters ... up on the bole of the tree. Built a sort of platform. For his feet. Broken the arrestor rods off ... little more than spikes ... then sharpened them. Must've used a rock to drive the long one through his feet into the bestos platform and tree. "His left arm ... he'd pounded the stake between the radius and ulna ... missed veins ... just like the goddamned Romans."