Again, don’t be discouraged by watching this mountain climbing movie. Unlike 127 Hours, it has a slightly less gruesome ending. Touching the Void covers the true story of two climbers, Joe Simpson and Simon Yates, who set out to climb the west face of the 6,244-metre tall Siula Grande in the Peruvian Andes in the year 1985 – a feat which hadn’t be accomplished before. The duo manages to reach the peak but while descending, one of them breaks a leg (literally). And when you thought things can’t get any worse, Simpson (the one with the broken leg) falls into a crevasse. Simon continues the descent by himself, assuming Simpson to be dead.
How Simpson survived the fall and made it back to base camp is a story that will astound and inspire.
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