Words are not enough. The affirmations anyway are exhausted. It's a day of sensations, exquisite, undiluted euphoria, utter rapture. With the rest of the world, I have been privy to a miracle, an actual miracle. The miners are coming up.

This is a demonstration of collectivism, of hope, faith, planning, humanity, endeavour. All the things that the cynics bleat don't exist. Amazing. Extraordinary. The power, the raw naked, power of the Human Spirit.

I saw a comment on the BBC news feed that I've been streaming all day which so aptly summed up how we global citizens are reacting, and that is "...with an inexplicable sense of relief every time one reaches the surface..."