Touching the Void - By Joe Simpson

1.   Based on a true story....
2. Joe and Simon, are trying to climb the Siula Grande (West Side). The succeed eventually as before a few groups have tried, but they failed. After they reached the top and celebrated. They then eventually decided to descend from the North Ridge. 
3.  Then there was disaster. Joe slipped down an ice cliff, then he landed very awkwardly, as he broke his leg. Later Simon found him, and brought him back up. But thought to himself that he hoped that he died, since it would be extremely hard to descend with him back down the mountain. After this there was bad weather, and this made it hard to move on. Their stove wouldn't work since they didn't have enough fuel for it and they had barely any water. 
4.  As the weather became worse, they needed to get down the cliff that is about 3,000m high. Simon makes a 300ft rope and tries to descend Joe down from the glacier. It took a very long time and Joe and Simon felt like they were a team again. The weather became worse and it was very hard for them to descend. Their hands were badly frost-bitten, but they descended lower.
5.  They eventually thought that they were at the bottom but suddenly, beneath Joe (100ft) there was a huge crevasse (crack). They were now in a very bad position as Joe couldn't climb the rope and Simon couldn't pull him up because of frost bite. 
6.  Simon realised that this was his chance, as Joe could not see him. He cut the rope and that sent Joe flying down and into the crevasse. But  he was alive. He had landed on an ice bridge with two drops either side. Simon though descended down the mountain alone, as Joe tried to call out for someone to help but there was no-one there. He managed to screw himself to the wall with his frostbite. He never gave up though as he pushed himself up. Then he saw the other part of the rope that was cut. He later cried himself to sleep. He continued to cry out but there was still no answer, the he decided that he had to descend.
7. From there, Joe spent three days without food and with almost no water, crawling and hopping five miles back to their base camp.
8. Simpson's survival is widely regarded by mountaineers as amongst the most amazing pieces of mountaineering survival