Touching the Void (2003)

documentary review of Touching the Void (2003)

The closer you are to death. The more you realize you are alive.

It’s a very cool tagline and one that sums up this documentary perfectly. It is about two men, Joe Simpson and Simon Yates, who wanted to climb the Siula Grande in the Peruvian Andes in 1985. A mountain no one had ever successfully climbed, as these men found out there was a good reason for it. Continue reading