In the book Touching the void, there are two characters called Joe and Simon who go on an dangerous but exciting adventure towards the top of the mountain Siula tarnde. They have been climbing half way up the mountain for at least 5 days and they both were starving and thirsty and they both were cold and hot and dehydrated and hydrated.
Then suddenly things were starting to get worse, at least for joe when joe was trying to climb up the mountain halfway up, and then suddenly the ice axe
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