/lit/ - Literature

I was watching Touching the Void which is a docudrama film thing, if you're too lazy to google, about a couple pals who climb up a virgin slope of a mountain in Peru and nearly die on the way up and come very close on the descent. One of them breaks his leg and his partner attempts to lower him via a lengthy rope at 150 or so foot junctures. Eventually the slope is undercut by a little ice precipice that he goes over and gets stuck on, suspended above a huge crevice, and after an hour and a half of hanging there freezing to death, his partner, not knowing why he hasn't righted himself to let the rope slack so he can continue the descent and lower him at another juncture, is too close to slipping and sending them both off so he cuts the rope. Broken leg man is sent falling in to the crevice which is hundreds of feet deep, but crashes through some sort of wall at enough to stop him from dying, and falls on to some slope in the crevice by luck which would be a drop depth of about 100 feet without dying. Seeing the footage of the inside of a huge ice crevice with some actor playing the part and hearing broken leg man's articulate description for the documentary after the fact of what it was like stuck in there with just his headlamp left an impression with me of what it would've been like for him or anyone to be stuck on that slope in the crevice, not dying from the cold any longer since you're protected from the elements, just succumbing to dehydration or maybe blood loss from the broken leg and left alone in the vastness of the ice cave with your thoughts.

Really good movie/documentary.