Touching the Void - Epilogue: 10 Years On
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- čas přidán 6. 05. 2023
- If you have watched the film as was well as the extras but haven't read the book, you might of missed this vital verdict in the story. Both Simon and Joe arrive at the same conclusion - a near fatal mistake - and it happened before they even left base camp.
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The words you both found provided enough imagination for me that your experiences live in the pictures of my mind all these years later. Well articulated and haunting
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Simon states that the decision to cut the rope was made as if it had not come from his own mind? In the film Joe talks about a cruel external force pushing him on even though he was in agony? There are some similarities with both of these reflections. It's as though both men were somehow driven by an 'external entity' that was beyond their own experience. A remote temporal viewer telling them what to do? People who have taken DMT have talked about 'conversations with God' and it has been reported that persistent users have met entities that appear friendly and helpful. In extreme conditions such as a near death experience or bad accident the body creates it's own chemicals and many people under life threatening situations have reported having 'Out of Body' experiences whereby they are separate to the physical world but could see themselves in their dire predicament and they where able to communicate with their physical counter part?
Evidence is now building that suggests that 'consciousness' does not originate in the brain. It is beyond our understanding of space time. We do not know where it can be 'located' but it is not in any earthly dimension we can measure. In the end we just don't know. But in any case I can recommend the following books 'The Case Against Reality' by Donald Hoffman and 'Consciousness Beyond Life: The Science of the Near-Death Experience' by Pim Van Lommel.
On the gas situation: This is a constant dilemma. More kit equals more weight which slows you down, which in itself could create a dangerous situation arising. Imagine if they carried a small PMR radios and Richard had a drone to drop them some gas? But this was in 1985 so radio kit was a lot more expensive and heavier and drones weren't available.
In my experience when back packing, I have noticed the following with kit items you are deliberating over taking... if you take them you won't need them. If you don't, you will need them! But in my mind the gas cylinders where the equivalent to carrying water. And I know that dehydration is extremely dangerous as it leads to electrolyte depletion, and that can make you seriously ill or at worse kill you. Remember the SAS guys on Brecon Beacons? Extreme training during the hottest part of the year, they let themselves get dehydrated but were not worried because they still had water. But it was too late. They got ill. And some of them died.
See Earnest Shackleton , Capt Scott , and Edmond Hillary all talking about the " third man."