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Touching the Void is a 2003 survival documentary film directed by Kevin Macdonald and starring Brendan Mackey, Nicholas Aaron, and Ollie Ryall. The plot concerns Joe Simpson and Simon Yates' near-fatal descent after making the first successful ascent of the West Face of Siula Grande in the Cordillera Huayhuash in the Peruvian Andes, in 1985. It is based on Simpson's 1988 book of the same name.
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I remember zapping through the tv channels some 8 years ago and stumbling on a mountain climber documentary. Something about this story caught my interest. As i sat there watching, my casual interest grew into disbelief. Could this story be real? The happenings on that mountain in 1985, as told by these two crazy british climbers, are unreal. Particularly the one who breaks his leg on the way down, goes through a jo…More