Hi folks,

I haven't seen any mention of the movie "Touching the Void" on this forum. It's come out on DVD, I recently got it from NetFlix.

For those of you who have read Deep Survival, by Lawrence Gonzales, Touching the Void is a movie about one of the more remarkable survival stories detailed in that book. It is part interview, part re-enactment, of the two mountain climbers (Joe and Simon) who challenged the unclimbed face of a particularly rough mountain in the Andes.

A quick primer: on their descent, Joe fell and injured himself, which should have been a death sentence right there. Simon found a way to continue helping Joe with the descent, but everything that could go wrong did. At one point, Simon has to cut the rope tethering him to Joe, to save his own life. The resulting story is an incredible display of survivor thinking.

Very entertaining movie, check it out!

-- Joe Talmadge