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Touching The Void

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Initial release Canada
Directors Kevin Macdonald
Story by Joe Simpson
Screenplay Joe Simpson
David Darlow
A brilliant show of human strengths and its smallness and weakness at the same time. This movie shows that beneath . . .
Awards BAFTA Award for Best British Film
British Independent Film Award for Best British Documentary
British Independent Film Award for Best Technical Achievement
Evening Standard British Film Award for Best Film
Seattle Film Critics Award for Best Documentary
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About Touching The Void


In 1985, two young climbers, Joe Simpson (Brendan Mackey) and Simon Yates (Nicholas Aaron), set out to be the first to reach the summit of the Siula Grande in the Peruvian Andes. They succeed, and the two embark on the treacherous descent down the mountain -- only to meet with disaster when Simpson breaks his leg in a fall, leaving Yates to lower him the rest of the way with ropes. When a storm threatens both their lives, Yates must decide whether to cut the rope and risk Simpson's likely death.

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