Albert's English Journal

Relationship between climbers – “he asked me if I was okay” this shows that Simon cares in a little way . ” I already owe Simon” joe saying he owes Simon for having him involved every way with all the publicity.

landscape – “I felt as if I was about to be attacked from behind at any moment.” This is where joe is visiting the mountain for the filming and is feeling fear. Fear as if the mountain will attack him. “This was the place where I had known I was going to die. Those ridge lines should have been the last thing I would ever see” Simon in a panic at the mountains  making him think he should of came back.

Technical climbing terms – “Okay joe, begin to crawl towards the rocky narrows please. In your own time.” This is interesting because the man on the radio is almost forcing joe to rein act the horror of crawling again. Quite haunting. “Pretending to crawl and fall and horas I had done seventeen years earlier. Why couldn’t they have just used an actor out here? I kept asking myself.” This is where joe had to act out what happened and at this point it must be torture for him going through what mentally screwed him up.

Moral justification of the choice to cut the rope –  “the rope cutting had clearly touched a nerve”  touching the nerve clearly shows the controversy of the situation, people agree and disagree with the choice that Simon made. But joe claims he wrote it as honestly as he could so people won’t bash Simon for making that decision to almost kill joe to save himself.