Should you watch Touching the Void?
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Touching the Void
Documentary · 2003
The true story of Joe Simpson and Simon Yates' disastrous and nearly-fatal mountain climb of 6,344m Siula Grande in the Cordillera Huayhuash in the Peruvian Andes in 1985.
The sides of Touching the Void
- Two climbers on a peak in the Peruvian Andes
- A rope cut above a crevasse
- A man crawling back to camp with a broken leg
Touching the Void is good for you if…
- you want to know how someone gets off that mountain alive.
- you grip the chair even though the two men telling it are sitting right there.
- you like the men who lived it telling it themselves.
Touching the Void is bad for you if…
- you can't watch heights, ice and a drop into the dark.
- you want something warm and low-stakes tonight.
About: survival · guilt · friendship
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