127 hours
Experience
can understand measurement easily
"consistent 3 feet across"
unexpected
"instead of the walls widening after the drop off"
Danger
Height
"drop off"
"Claustrophobic "
landscape isn't what he though it was
repetition of this
"controlling this counter pressure"
"ill dangle off the chockstone, then take a short fall onto the rounder rock piled on the canyon floor"
"this the unique is know as stemming"
"narrow"
again reinforcing this sense of danger and uncomfortable feeling
"9 foot height"
"size of a bus"
seems like he doesn't expect it
SKILLED
" I can move... shoulder width crevice"
Chockstones
"size of a bus"
wouldn't focus if not relevant
SPECIFIC
entertain
easy to understand
accident wouldn't be his fault - links to danger
raises tension
"Its jammed tightly"
"scraping quake"
specific
"instantly I know this is trouble"
sense of danger as he understand he is now in danger this links back to experience
"chockstone falling falling toward me head consumes the sky"
TONES OF TECHNICAL VERBS
extending
squatting
sliding
helps us to visualise
chimneying
creates a sense of tension as they contribute to him moving around in an unstable environemt
more focused in his physical body "right foot" "kicking" "extending arms" his body is physically VULNERABAL
contrast to his skill
insight into his decisions
links to the way we see him --> not his fault
intillegent
"my only hope" sense of vulnerability --> victim of circumstance
Fear shoots my hand over my head
futile and vulnerable
desperation + vulnerability (linked in other sections)
"my desperate brain contours up a probably apocrvaphyl story...an adrenaline-stoked mum lifts an overturned car
"best chance ill have"
"my disbelief paralyses me"
"the next three seconds play out a tenth of their normal speed"
just in utter shock and disbelief
he is experienced and intelligent and he ws doming everything right
why him???
keeps referring to this idea of his best chance
words
anxiety
frantic
shock
RESPONSE TO THE DANGER
take action
yanking his arm
trying to push of the boulder
proactive
"heaving against it"
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