Joe Simpson <3

[glacier_kitty]

Awhile ago in the bookstore I found this book totally by chance..it's called Touching the Void by Joe Simpson. Joe and his partner Simon were climbing a mountain and Joe fell and shattered his knee. Simon lowered him down the mountain..but then he lowered him over a huge crevasse. Simon couldn't hear him cause there was a storm and he had to cut the rope. Joe survived his fall through the crevasse, dragged himself over the glacier and the moraine, past a lake and back to camp. It was an amazing story. There was a documentary made and I got to see that when mom and I were looking through the movies on Netflix. That made the story even more amazing. Recently I read another of Joe's books called The Beckoning Silence. Part of it was about his attempt at climbing the Eiger in Switzerland. He also talked about a group of people in the 30s that tried to summit the North Face of the Eiger (it had never been successfully summited before). They were Joe's inspiration to mountain climb (their story is also told in The White Spider..which I'm totally gonna read). Reading that made me fascinated with the Eiger. The Beckoning Silence was made into a documentary as well and I found it on Youtube! I watched part of it yesterday. It's AWESOME..it's sooo good. It talks about the group of people from the 30s and has reenactments of them climbing. It also shows Joe climbing the Eiger and him talking about his fascination with the mountain. There's something about watching it that makes it all the more awesome. I'm totally posting it here when I finish watching it. I'm so glad I found that book at work..Joe Simpson is awesome :D

They want to raise my rent to $330 instead of $235. Failll




Day 1- Regular Face
Day 2- Happy Face
Day 3- Sad Face
Day 4- Mad Face
Day 5- Weird Face
Day 6- Bad Odor Face
Day 7- Sophisticated Face
Day 8- Rawr Face
Day 9- Unamused Face
Day 10- Laughing Face
Day 11- Crying Face
Day 12- “I’ma Eat You” Face
Day 13- Sleeping Face
Day 14- Eating Face
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Day 17- “Turned On” Face
Day 18- Creeper Face
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Day 23- Annoyed Face
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Day 24- Tired Face
Day 25- “I’mma Beat Yo Ass” Face
Day 26- Crazy Face
Day 28- Mischievous Face
Day 29- Surprised Face
Day 30- Accomplished Face


Would you rather have an ugly wart on your big toe for two weeks or a big pimple on the tip of your nose for three days? The pimple..even though those kind are the most painful kind. If you accidentally touch your nose..owww

Today's trivia: NASA invented the DustBuster

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[glacier-kitty.livejournal.com]

Hm..maybe. Is it about the guy who got his arm stuck when a rock fell on it?

Yeah it's cause I'm getting my PFD now haha