Month: February 2016

  • Touching the void – Chapter 7 (Shadows in the ice) Summary

    Touching the void – Chapter 7 (Shadows in the ice) Summary

    The chapter starts with Joe hanging from the rope expecting to drop down at any point along with Simon, Suddenly he falls down and after hitting the ground slips through a crevasse where he falls again until he smacks himself into a rock ledge. He realises he survived the drop and beliefs Simon is above…

  • Touching the void – Chapter 6 (The Final Choice) Summary

    Touching the void – Chapter 6 (The Final Choice) Summary

    Joe and Simon both start their descent down the mountain, Joe is still in complete agony after his near fatal accident in the previous chapter. Simon is completely confident in his plan to lower Joe down the mountain but as time goes by the descent by Simon becomes faster and faster and Joe starts becoming…

  • Touching the void – Chapter 5 (Disaster) Summary

    Touching the void – Chapter 5 (Disaster) Summary

    Joe and Simon start to climb down the mountain, as they keep on going down disaster strikes and Joe falls down the mountain and breaks his legs in the process. Now fearing for his life as now it would take even more work and may even be impossible to get back down the mountain, his…

  • Touching the void – Chapter 4 (On the edge) summary

    Touching the void – Chapter 4 (On the edge) summary

    Joe is beginning to start worrying but the situation him and Simon are in and the intense sense of fate he is facing, soon enough Joe encounters his first fall, the distance between him and Simon makes it hard or them to communicate with each other. Simon (Who has frostbite now) becomes angry at Joe…