tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5792091490830889912.post6585473904053862805..comments2023-06-21T16:13:29.923+01:00Comments on bibliotekit: Review: Touching The Void, Joe Simpsonkithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03854966834578026067noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5792091490830889912.post-8502833016262681152012-08-02T20:08:32.349+01:002012-08-02T20:08:32.349+01:00Your review makes me want to go out and buy it, it...Your review makes me want to go out and buy it, it put me in mind of a 'walk' that a super fit friend of mine suggested we take when we were in Fjærland, Sogn og Fjordane, Norway. Him, we're going to walk a bit up the mountain, me...the base of the mountains already like three miles away from here...him yes, so just a little walk afterwards. We climbed all the way up! I think it was 1km vertically, at the stage where i wanted to turn back going up was closer than going down (going down though was very fast as I seemed to do a lot of the downward travelling on my butt). Well we get to the top, I'm exhausted and lay myself flat out. He goes, but we should properly see the ice/ glacier. I waved him off and half an hour later he still wasn't back I start to walk up thinking this can't be good because he's like a mountain goat and should have been back at least fifteen minutes earlier...i meet him racing down. Turns out he jumped into a crevice - he informs me he checked that the bottom was solid by poking it with his branch/walking stick - but alas, once in the crevice he realised it was a lot deeper than he'd thought and he struggled to get back out. I don't think I'll ever have that mountaineering/adventurous spirit!Katja Weinerthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10783876476292438371noreply@blogger.com