Director: Kevin Macdonald.
Cast: Brendan Mackey, Nicholas Aaron, Richard Hawking.
Touching the Void is a 2003 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 6,344 metre (20,813 foot) Siula Grande in the Peruvian Andes in 1985.
Both climbers successfully summit the previously unclimbed West Face of Siula Grande in Peru. Simpson is injured during the descent after falling, resulting in a broken leg. They therefore decide to lower Simpson with the help of ropes on the steep snowy slope, while an enormous storm rages on. Yates cannot see where he is lowering Simpson and the latter eventually drops from a cliff into a crevasse, hanging on the rope in midair. Yates arrests his fall, but does not see the predicament his partner is in nor hear him because of the severity of the storm. After about an hour, Yates realizes that there is little chance of recovery from this situation for either of them and he makes the decision to cut Simpson's rope . After surviving a subzero and stormy night on the mountain, Yates descends but cannot find his partner. Simpson, who survived the fall but fell further into the crevasse, manages to lower himself even more into the dark abyss despite his broken leg and find an exit leading to the base of the mountain. He then spends days crawling across glacier and rocks with his broken leg and other injuries. Delirious, he found and crawled into the climbers' base camp on the day they had packed up to leave the camp after searching and waiting for him, finally believing Simpson to be dead.
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