Touching the Void

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Product description ------------------- From O®-winning* director Kevin Macdonald comes a riveting true story a gripping white-knuckle (The Village Voice) adventure culminating in a cliffhanger a real one (Los Angeles Times)! After scaling the never-before-conquered 21000-foot Siula Grande ain climbers Joe Simpson and Simon Yates face their greatest challenge yet: getting back down. But when Simpson shatters his leg in an awful fall and the friends are separated by a series of devastating mishaps their individual journeys become a voyage into extreme experience that should not be missed (New York Post)!System Requirements: Runnig Time 107 MinFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: DOCUMENTARIES/MISC. Rating: R UPC: 027616905260 Manufacturer No: 1006298 .com ---- To describe Touching the Void as a aineering documentary would be to do this breathtaking drama an injustice. By intercutting narration from the climbers themselves with a nail-biting reconstruction of their remarkable adventure in the Peruvian Andes, the film has the best of both genres: the authentic stamp of factual storytelling and the edge-of-the-seat tension of a dramatic movie. In 1985, two British aineers, Joe Simpson and Simon Yates, embarked on a daring--arguably reckless in the extreme--attempt to climb the previously unconquered ain Siula Grande. A mixture of overconfidence in their own abilities and underestimation of the climb's difficulties brought them to grief after the successful slog to the summit. What follows is an often harrowing account of their perilous descent. Based on Joe Simpson's gripping book ( /exec/obidos/ASIN/0060730552/${0} ), the film boasts glorious widescreen photography of Siula Grande and its notorious glacier. Actors take the place of the two climbers for close-ups, though Simpson did return to Peru in order to reenact parts of his dreadful crawl back down the ice. The story of Simpson's almost-superhuman fortitude has become legendary in climbing circles, and even for viewers uninterested in aineering, Touching the Void is an astonishing slice of real-life drama, magnificently retold. --Mark Walker P.when('A').execute(function(A) { A.on('a:expander:toggle_description:toggle:collapse', function(data) { window.scroll(0, data.expander.$expander[0].offsetTop-100); }); }); Set Contains: ------------- Touching the Void is presented on DVD in anamorphic widescreen, which makes the most of the glorious vistas, and Dolby 5.1 sound. In addition to a making-of featurette, two fairly short extras are invaluable appendices to the main feature: "What Happened Next" tells in their own words how the team made it back home, while "Return to Siula Grande" finds both Joe and Simon back at the ain in the summer of 2002 to advise on the filming; emotions are mixed at best, as Simon seems unable to express his real feelings about the experience, and Joe finds himself painfully reliving the ordeal in his mind, as well as in front of the cameras. --Mark Walker See more ( javascript:void(0) )