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Touching The Void

2004, Movie, NR, 106 mins

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Kevin Macdonald's documentary/ docudrama juxtaposes stunningly beautiful scenery and the nearly unbelievable true story of a mountain-climbing expedition gone awry to chilling effect. Macdonald's unusual narrative approach combines recent interviews with real-life climbers Joe Simpson and Simon Yates, and dramatic recreations of their harrowing experience on Siula Grande, a previously unconquered peak in the Peruvian Andes. In 1985, the young but experienced mountain climbers... read more leave a comment
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Touching the Void is a documentary film based on the book of the same name by Joe Simpson about Simpson's and Simon Yates' disastrous and near fatal attempt to climb the 20,813 foot Siula Grande in the Peruvian Andes in 1985.
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Length: 01:48
Posted: 7/23/2009
Touching The Void movie trailer - starring Nicholas Aaron, Richard Hawking, Brendan Mackey, Joe Simpson, Simon Yates. Directed by Kevin Macdonald. Genre: Documentary Rating: R
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Length: 01:45
Posted: 3/17/2008
One of the greatest adventure stories of all-time, Touching the Void recounts the thrilling, disastrous climb Joe Simpson and his mountaineering partner Simon Yates undertook as they set out to scale the previously insurmountable west face of Siula Grande in the Peruvian Andes. Winner of numerous awards including a BAFTA for Best British Film, this critically-lauded documentary from IFC Films combines dramatic reconstruction of the climb and interviews with the two climbers it nearly killed. It was 1985 and Joe Simpson and Simon Yates were young, fit, skilled climbers. The west face of Siula Grande, remote and treacherous, had not been climbed before. Following a successful 3 1/2 day ascent, disaster struck. Simpson fell a short distance and broke several bones in his leg. With no hope of rescue, the men decided to attempt descent together. What followed is one of the most incredible accounts of tragedy, friendship and human endurance.
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Length: 01:46:31
Posted: 5/1/2008
Trailer for the documentary about two climbers and their dangerous expedition up a mountain in the Peruvian Andes.
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Posted: 12/19/2009
Year: 2004
Rated NR

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Cast
Joe Simpson: Himself
Simon Yates: Himself
Richard Hawking: Himself
Brendan Mackey: Joe Simpson
Nicholas Aaron: Simon Yates
Ollie Ryall: Richard Hawking

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