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Amazingly, at this point going back in time again actually seems like a novel concept, and while the technology used may be significantly more dated than recent entries, expect Battlefield 1 to maintain the same kind of action that’s made the series a hit in the realm of online warfare.īattlefield 1 will feature 64-player battles and an assortment of weapons that highlight the variety and ingenuity found in the trenches. While Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare expands into full-on space combat, Battlefield 1 is looking to take players to World War I later this year.
Five stars aren't enough.EA is trying something different with the Battlefield series, and oddly enough that involves dialing events back further than ever before. They must have been having a really bad day because Joe's writing takes you right into the heart of his ordeal. There's another reviewer below who was bored by this book. I read this after seeing the excellent movie, and Joe's reflections, at the end of this book about the experience of helping make the film and reliving the horror (he and Simon are played by actors in wide shot, but the climbers provided all the close-up technical shots)- provides additional and unexpected depth and humanity. How he does so, and how he skirts around the very edges of death provides the book with its extremely powerful human resonance. But of course this memoir is written by Joe so we know that somehow, against all odds, our author will also get himself to safety.
Simon chooses the latter, and the result is horrifying: with Joe plunging into a deep crevasse with no way of climbing up the sheer ice. Partner Simon attempts the impossible and begins an inventive, courageous one-man rescue operation, but half way down the mountain he is forced to make a ghastly choice: stay roped to Joe and both will perish, or cut the rope and make a desperate bid to reach the bottom. But here they draw a spectacularly bad hand - first with Joe having a terrible bone crunching accident that leaves him scarcely able to move, and then with rapidly deteriorating weather. This is a true story of a mountain expedition in the Andes where two British partners take risks acceptable to experienced and fit climbers. This is an absorbing read and one of the great stories in mountaineering literature. What happens next is sure to make one believe in miracles. He cut the rope, believing that he was consigning his friend to certain death. So, Simon was finally forced to do the only thing he could do under the circumstances. In fact, Joe's weight began to pull Simon off the mountain. Joe could not get up, and Simon could not get down. The dark outline of a crevasse lay about a hundred feet directly below him. The edge was over hung about fifteen feet above him.
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About three thousand feet down, Joe, who was still roped to Simon, dropped off an edge and found himself now free hanging in space six feet away from an ice wall, unable to reach it with his axe. For the next few hours, they worked in tandem through a snowstorm, and managed a risky, yet effective way of trying to lower Joe down the mountain. Yet, they fashioned a daring plan to do just that. When Simon reached him, they both knew that the chances for getting Joe off the mountain were virtually non-existent. Beneath him was a seemingly endless fall to the bottom. Near the summit, tragedy struck when Joe, up over 19,000 feet, fell and hit a slope at the base of a cliff, breaking his right leg, rupturing his right knee, and shattering his right heel. The author, Joe Simpson, and his climbing partner, Simon Yates, attempted to ascend a perilous section of the Peruvian Andes. This book recounts an amazing tale of courage, fortitude, and the will to live, despite dire circumstances.
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