Touching the Void

IMDb: 8

Kinopoisk: 8

Country: United Kingdom, USA

Year: 2003

Genre: Biography, Documentary, Drama

Age: 16 +

Cast:Brendan Mackey, Charles Furneaux, John Smithson, Kevin Macdonald, Nicholas Aaron, Richard Hawking, Robin Gutch

About “Touching the Void”:

Touching the Void is a 2003 survival documentary film directed by Kevin Macdonald and starring Brendan Mackey, Nicholas Aaron, and Ollie Ryall. The plot concerns Joe Simpson and Simon Yates' near-fatal descent after making the first successful ascent of the West Face of Siula Grande in the Cordillera Huayhuash in the Peruvian Andes, in 1985. It is based on Simpson's 1988 book of the same name.