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Touching the void

In 1985, two young British friends travelled to a remote corner of Peru. Ambitious mountaineers, their aim was to conquer the unclimbed west face of a notorious 21,000 ft. peak "Siula Grande". Their story has become part of mountaineering legend. This film combines interviews and reenactments to tell the story.

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  • "Tocando el vacío"
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  • "Docudrama over de lotgevallen van twee bergbeklimmers die in 1985 de 7000 meter hoge top van de Siula Grande in het Andesgebergte bereiken maar door een val ternauwernood aan de dood ontsnappen."
  • "In 1985, two young British friends travelled to a remote corner of Peru. Ambitious mountaineers, their aim was to conquer the unclimbed west face of a notorious 21,000 ft. peak "Siula Grande". Their story has become part of mountaineering legend. This film combines interviews and reenactments to tell the story."@en
  • "In 1985, two young British friends travelled to a remote corner of Peru. Ambitious mountaineers, their aim was to conquer the unclimbed west face of a notorious 21,000 ft. peak "Siula Grande". Their story has become part of mountaineering legend. This film combines interviews and reenactments to tell the story."
  • "Film drama telling the story of a mountaineering accident in Peru in May 1985, which nearly killed climbers Joe Simpson and Simon Yates."@en
  • "Drama documentary telling the awe-inspiring true story of climbers Joe Simpson and Simon Yates as they climb the Siula Grande in the Andes; but disaster strikes when Simpson takes a fall and breaks his leg. Critically acclaimed film, one of the best of 2003."
  • "After scaling the never-before-conquered 21,000 foot Siula Grande, mountain climbers Joe Simpson and Simon Yates face their greatest challenge yet: getting back down. But when Simpson shatters his leg in an awful fall and the friends are separated by a series of devastating mishaps, their adventure becomes a nightmare. This documentary mixes interviews with the climbers and dramatic recreations of the events."
  • "En 1985, la conquête d'une montagne des Andes tourne au cauchemar pour les alpinistes anglais Simon Yates et Joe Simpson."
  • "After scaling the never-before-conquered 21,000 foot Siula Grande, mountain climbers Joe Simpson and Simon Yates face their greatest challenge yet : getting back down. But when Simpson shatters his leg in a fall and the friends are separated by a series of devastating mishaps, their adventure becomes a nightmare. This documentary mixes interviews with the climbers and dramatic recreations of the events."@en
  • "Created by the Oscar winning director Kevin MacDonald (Last King of Scotland, State of Play, One Day In September), comes this extraordinary film describing one of the most incredible true stories of survival and adventure of our time. Based on the best selling novel by Joe Simpson, Touching The Void recounts the mountain climb Simpson and his partner Simon Yates undertook in 1985. These two young men from the North of England, both in their early twenties, set out to climb the 21000 foot, savage ice-face - the Siula Grande - in the Peruvian Andes. Simpson and Yates embark on an 'Alpine-style' climb - with no back-up team, no helicopters, no equipment other than what they carry in their packs. It's the purist technique, roped together, and utterly dependent on each other's skill. Simpson and Yates have guts, youthful arrogance and talent. And a dry English sense of humour. They clamber up icicles, dangle over 1,400m drops, and spend three hours making a mug of tea at -62C. Making it to the top in three days, they run into blizzard weather and a treacherous ridge on their way down, where Simpson falls and shatters his leg - a veritable death sentence. A heroic battle for survival unfolds in which both men are faced with life or death decisions that test the human spirit to its limit. The film itself is a fusion of first person interviews with Simpson and Yates (who returned to the Andes together for the first time to retell their story) spliced with extraordinary pieces of scene setting (the shots of the mountain are magnificent) and dramatic reconstruction of events. Kevin Macdonald's account of the expedition is an utterly gripping piece of documentary film. The mix of interview and ice-pick thriller is a stunning piece of creative cinema and a deep psychological suspense drama. Breathtakingly beautiful to look at and gripping to watch, Touching the Void is also so much more than a mountaineering film. Although we experience the effort, the exhaustion, the pain and the triumph of one of the greatest stories of survival, Touching the Void raises big questions of the nature of forgiveness, the loneliness of a Godless universe and the importance of human companionship. It is a film about taking control of your life and the power of extreme challenges that involve complex practical, moral and ethical choices. Ultimately, Touching the Void is, beyond any cliché, truly a story about the triumph of the human spirit.--Kanopy."@en
  • "Based on the best-selling novel by Joe Simpson, "Touching the void" recounts the mountain climb Simpson and his partner Simon Yates undertook in 1985. The film follows the two extreme climbers as they set out to climb the 21, 000 foot ice-face - the Sula Grande - in the Peruvian Andes."
  • "After scaling the never-before-conquered 21,000 foot Siula Grande, mountain climbers Joe Simpson and Simon Yates face their greatest challenge yet: getting back down. But when Simpson shatters his leg in a fall and the friends are separated by a series of devastating mishaps, their adventure becomes a nightmare. This documentary mixes interviews with the climbers and dramatic recreations of the events."@en
  • "In 1985 two young British friends, Joe Simpson and Simon Yates, travelled to a remote corner of Peru. Ambitious mountaineers, their aim was to conquer the unclimbed West face of a notorious 21,000 foot peak - Siula Grande."@en
  • "In 1985, two young British friends travelled to a remote corner of Peru. Ambitious mountaineers, their aim was to conquer the unclimbed west face of a notorious 21,000 ft. peak "Siula Grande". Their story has become part of mountaineering legend."@en
  • "The story of Joe Simpson's miraculous survival after he was injured while climbing in the Andes in 1985 and left for dead by his partner."@en
  • "English Department. Duration: 102 minutes. Based on the novel by Joe simpson,Touching the Void, recounts the mountain climb Simpson and his partner Simon Yates undertook in 1995. This film follows the two extreme climbers as they start out to climb the 21,000 ft ice-face- the Sula Grande - in the Peruvian Andes."
  • "Recounts the mountain climb that Joe Simpson and Simon Yates undertook in 1985 to conquer the 21, 000 foot ice-face, called the Sula Grande, in the Peruvian Andes."@en

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