Touching the Void (2003)
- Directed by
- Kevin Macdonald
- Genre
- documentary film, drama film
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Runtime
- 1h 46m
- Rated
- R
- Rating
- 7.6 of 10 from 461 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
Mountaineers Joe Simpson and Simon Yates attempt the first successful climb of a treacherous peak in the Peruvian Andes. On the descent, an accident leaves Joe with a broken leg and Simon is forced to make an impossible choice to survive.
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What happens
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. Critically acclaimed, Touching the Void was listed in PBS's "100 Greatest Documentaries of All Time". The Guardian described it as "the most successful documentary in British cinema history". (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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