Joe Simpson Touching The Void

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In the movie Touching the Void, it starts off by two people named Joe Simpson and Simon Yates that go to Peru to climb the Siula Grande Mountains. The ranges of those mountains haven’t been climbed and those who have tried to climb them, failed. Simpson and Yates tried to climb the glacier even though they knew the risks. A glacier is made up of fallen snow that has been accumulated throughout the years and it forms into a large and thick ice masses. It’s where the snow remains that have been remained in a certain are for long periods of time and it transforms into ice. The type of glacier that they climbed was a confined glacier. The glacier was a depositional, because when Simpson was walking towards the campsite where Yates was, he had to pass through the moraines, where it’s a formed accumulation of glacial debris in which consist of soil and rocks. The glacier had many areas where there were crevasses. In fact, Simpson was the one who actually fell into one. Crevasse is a deep open crack in the thick ice on a mountain, which are caused by stress by the glacier flow, they maybe in a few feet long or sometimes miles long. According to Simpson, he felt that he fell about 150 feet into the crevasse. When Simpson fell into the crevasse, there it was like a deep hole that had no way out, except for the hole that he made when he fell into it. But when he …show more content…

The rocks that are round shape are the ones that move the most, and I could tell that most of the rocks when getting closer to campsite where round rocks, and that would probably mean that the glacier was dragging the rocks towards the bottom, since they are easier to move around. Some of the bedrock rocks had striations, it’s where a glacier moves across the underlying rocks and the process of abrasion wears it away the fragments of the rock held in the ice and it scraps the rock on the

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