What expectations does the writer of the extract from Touching the Void create for the reader? use inference and analysis

The characters in the extract are evidently happy to take risks. They are mountaineers that want to climb 'the unclimbed West Face of Suila Grande' in the Andes in a place with 'no helicopters, no rescue'. Their appetite for risk taking also appears in the idea that the narrator will try Simon's sleeping pills to experience the 'weird hallucinations' that Simon is reporting, rather than saying don't take these pills anymore. The writer includes many references to what will happen next, making it certain and uncertain at the same time. 'Shall we go tomorrow then?' 'Might as well' comes after the statement 'Tomorrow we would start an acclimatisation climb up Rosario Norte'. The reader is seeing the future in the same way as the climbers - there are pages to go, but the reader doesn't know what is on them, just as the climbers don't know what will happen to them next. 'My only worry is this weather. I'm not sure what it means.' gives voice to the climbers uncertainty and despite their evident experience in the Alps (they know the Alps are full of 'hordes of climbers') they are in the Andes, it is new to them. Their competence and experience is set alongside their appetite for risk and the reader is as uncertain and as unknowing as they are about what will happen.