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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