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nwrestler03
Jan 18, 2004, 3:32 PM
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Touching the Void
Release Date: January 23, 2004
Director: Kevin Macdonald
Cast: Joe Simpson, Simon Yates
Joe Simpson and Simon Yates set out to climb the west face of the Siula Grande in the Peruvian Andes. It was 1985 and the men were young, fit, skilled climbers. The west face, remote and treacherous, had not been climbed before. Following a successful 3-day ascent, disaster struck. Simpson fell a short distance and broke several bones in his leg. With no hope of rescue, the men decided to attempt descent together with Yates lowering Simpson 300 feet at a time in a slow, painful process that could have potentially been deadly for both. One further misstep led to Yates unknowingly lowering his injured partner over the lip of a crevasse. With the gradient having gone from steep to vertical, he was no longer able to hold on. Certain they were about to be pulled jointly to their deaths -- the only choice was to cut the rope. Based on the international bestseller, "Touching the Void," which combines dramatic and documentary techniques, is directed by Kevin Macdonald, the Academy Award-winning director of "One Day in September."
www.IFCFilms.com/touchingthevoid/
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scubasnyder
Jan 18, 2004, 3:36 PM
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sounds intresting
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wildduck
Jan 18, 2004, 3:37 PM
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is the link broken ?
i can't seem to get to the url page....
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mungeclimber
Jan 18, 2004, 5:11 PM
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Hope they don't screw up the book.
Great and harrowing tale
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azeini
Jan 18, 2004, 5:31 PM
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Some people seem to have seen the movie, and say that it is a great movie, not screwing up the book.
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hema
Jan 18, 2004, 5:46 PM
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No chance of screwing up the book, as it's basicly a document with interviews from both Simpson and Yates plus re-enactment (having both Simpson and Yates doing some climbing in the original place of the accident in and on Siula Grande), part of the climbing sequences were filmed in France (not sure of this, but it's somewhere on the net) with Simpson/Yates doubles doing some climbing.
Oh, and Simpson was never lowereed in a crevassse, but over and icecliff. When Yates'es bucket seat almost broke (no other anchor, as the snow was too soft to really hold anything) he was forced to cut the rope and as Simpson fell, he broke though a snowbridge over the the crevasse and ended a great deal lower on a another snowbrige.
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randomboulder
Jan 19, 2004, 7:16 AM
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hema's right. it actually follows the book pretty closely. the documentary style of the movie does the book justice. but that doesn't mean there's no point in seeing it if you have read the book. i've read it, yet i was still pretty engulfed during the movie, and there's great footage, with a powerfully emotional ending as you can imagine. it has so far gotten good reviews from climbers who have and haven't read the book.
roj
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phyreman
Jan 19, 2004, 8:17 AM
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I just finished reading the book last night. I couldn't put it down. I'm looking forward to seeing the movie.
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buzyrock
Jan 19, 2004, 2:08 PM
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anyone got any idea what is the Release plan for this movie? Will it be on screen or on video only?
Is there any plan to release it outside US also, so that others can also see..
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tedwarski
Jan 19, 2004, 2:21 PM
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Check out the IFC websight. It has release dates and theaters listed.
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hema
Jan 19, 2004, 2:43 PM
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The movie is actually importet to US from England where it is already running on selected places, and on mountainfilm-festivals.
Should be out on DVD quite soon (this spring anyway).
Only one problem I can think of on the movie, as Simpson and Yates use screw-in type of ice-screws (BD Express or Turbo Express if I'm not greatly mistaken), but at the original ascent they used pound-in type screws (OK, No biggie but a mistake anyway). Another problem was that everyone was using Gore-tex garments which didn't even exist at the time (but luckily all the GTX-logos and stuff have been ducktaped).
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rockingnyc
Jan 19, 2004, 2:54 PM
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I actually just observed a climbing comp in NYC and Joe Simpson (the writer) was there. He gave a talk about his life, took questions, then signed copies of his book and a movie poster. He seems like a cool guy who is well respected, and I plan to see the movie when it comes out.
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nwrestler03
Jan 19, 2004, 3:43 PM
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why are people on this site always so critical in nitpicking of the most trivial flaws in everything...just enjoy it for what it is. jeez
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tradman
Jan 20, 2004, 5:01 PM
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More trivia:
The face has since been climbed by two americans to create a route called "Avoiding the Touch" :)
Fourteen years after the first and only ascent, the c1,000m high West Face of Siula Grande received a second from Americans, Carlos Buhler and Mark Price.
The two Americans also made two bivouacs on the face and a third on the North Ridge. However, after climbing the steep ice gully in the centre of the face common to the 1985 route, Buhler and Price broke out left to reach a rightward-slanting ramp line leading up to join the original route a little below the summit. On the third day Buhler, who has arguably made more significant first ascents in the high mountains of the Greater Ranges than any other living American, first survived the effects of a broken pick in the middle of an hard ice pitch only to find himself directly in the path of a collapsing cornice. Fortunately, the large bits missed him.
Worried by the prospects of a difficult and potentially dangerous descent of the highly sculptured North Ridge, the route first used to climb the mountain in 1936 by Awerzger and Schneider and sometimes rated as high as Alpine TD+, the Americans decided to rappel from the crest. This was achieved using a succession of Abalakov Threads, though was still fraught with objective danger in the form of falling ice. The new route of ascent comprised 24 sustained pitches and was christened (unoriginally) Avoiding the Touch.
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