Touching the Void Quotes

1

100

That moment when no one answered the call, I lost something ... 

I lost me.

200

I got a song going through my head. I found it very upsetting, because I wanted to try and get it _____  ___ ____  _____.

out of my head.

300

There’s not a lot of risk in our lives normally now and to put an element of risk back into it makes you feel _____ ______.

more alive.

400

I was holding back, because I didn't feel that was a ______  ______  ____  ______.

human being out there

500

All these huge mountains make you feel _______ and ______

small and vulnerable.

2

100

I just got lost, and I didn't know what I was doing _______.

anymore

200

This is it, this is as far as the _____ _____.

game goes.

300

We just wanted to climb the world and it was fun. And every now and then it went _____ _____.

wildly wrong

400

There’s not a lot of risk in our lives normally now and to put an element of risk back into it make you feel ______  _______.

More alive

500

And when I shouted and they weren’t there I sort of knew

I was dead.

3

100

It was just a slow steady reduction. Not just physically but you, everthing, 

yourself.

200

And when I shouted and they weren’t there I sort of 

knew I was dead.

300

If something goes wrong it can be very serious … If you get 

badly hurt, you’ll probably die.

400

You wonder whether there's some ______ ________ out to get you.

malign presence.

500

I don't know entirely what happened for the rest of that night. I stopped looking at the watch and

everything just started to go apart.

4

100

I thought, 'Bloody hell' I'm going to die to

 Boney M.

200

What’s so compelling is stepping into the ________.

unknown.

300

I don’t like summits because ...

 80% of accidents happen on the descent.

400

He thanked me for getting him down the mountain and he said to me " ____  ____   ____ ____  ____."

I'd have done the same.

500

I think that it was that loneliness, that sense of being _________.

abandoned.

5

100

I don't know entirely what happened for the rest of that night … everything just started to ...

go apart.

200

For me, mountains are the most beautiful places in the world. I feel and amazing sense of ________.

freedom.

300

It turned out to be very difficult and it all got a bit ...

out of control.

400

If he is out there, it's gonna be this horrible thing, it can't be a ________  ______.

human being.

500

[Joe was in an] Absolutely awful state. It was almost like he was a sort of ______-like figure.

ghost