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Touching the Void


timmy

22-Jun-2004
10:34:46 PM

Went to see it with JonhK last night. It was awesome! Haven't read the book, so i don't know if it kept to the story (just presuming it did). Go see it guys!!

glacier-rat

23-Jun-2004
9:50:00 AM

carolina

can you email me at work, ive misplaced your new email address

cheers


Romfrantic

23-Jun-2004
1:27:28 PM

hey dan, replied to your fieldtouring email (don't have my laptop right now so don't have your work email).

By the way, yeah Touching the Void movie was well done, kept very very real. The book is well worth reading, allows the reader to really immerse oneself in the emotional trauma of the accident, more so than that portrayed in the film ...my opinion anyway.


climbau

23-Jun-2004
9:34:59 PM

Just got back from seeing the movie, Awesome! I thought it was a really good adaptation from the book. Not as exciting as the book, but great nonetheless. Get out and see it.


neats

30-Jun-2004
8:28:33 AM

I loved it!! a very remarkable story.


nmonteith

30-Jun-2004
8:57:38 AM

This film is amazing. I couldn't fault any of it. The make-up team should win an oscar for their very beleivable sunburn look!

glacier-rat

30-Jun-2004
9:05:50 AM

just to think , things couldve been so much easier for poor joe if he had had his prusiks already on the rope...

hindsight is wonderful


nmonteith

30-Jun-2004
9:10:54 AM

or an extra fuel canistor....


maxots

30-Jun-2004
9:56:37 AM

I ended up thinking > couldn't he have ascended with one prussic (works for me, but then again, I have never been that cold/tired/hungry/injured etc etc.....

not laying blame > amazing story, and the wierd thing is, it seems like if he didn't cut the rope they both would have died ?!?!?!?!?

highly recomend this film !


Romfrantic

30-Jun-2004
10:05:08 AM

On 30/06/2004 nmonteith wrote:
>or an extra fuel canistor....

Oh we could go on and on about this, analysing the "if only they....". Too many to mention really. Lessons are important to observe though.
In the end it is the human spirit the one that triumphs in this movie/story/book.


Richard

30-Jun-2004
1:09:18 PM

On 30/06/2004 nmonteith wrote:
>or an extra fuel canistor....

Didn't Simon Yates write a book, some time later saying this was the basic cause of the accident, they had to hurry to much?

Thanks to Climb for Life organising a great night

matty

30-Jun-2004
1:18:11 PM

Awesome film

Must take nerves of steel to climb some of those peaks.
And a lot of trust in your climbing partner to not pull your over the edge.

I was dissapointed there was no nitro glycerine...or any attempts to run at an ice wall with 2 ice axes at hand.


Ell

30-Jun-2004
1:18:14 PM

On 30/06/2004 Richard wrote:
>On 30/06/2004 nmonteith wrote:
>>or an extra fuel canistor....
>
>Didn't Simon Yates write a book, some time later saying this was the basic
>cause of the accident, they had to hurry to much?
>
>Thanks to Climb for Life organising a great night

That was Joe's conclusion at the end of Touching The Void (book)

Brilliant movie by the way.


oweng

30-Jun-2004
3:03:40 PM

Simon Yates did write a book in which he touched on 'touching the void'. From memory it was called 'Against the wall', and was about a big wall climb he did with Paul Prichard (of 'Totem Pole' fame) in Patagonia. Interestingly PP wrote a book about the same trip called 'Deep Play', which won him the Boardman/Tasker prize and financed his trip to Aus/Tassie, where he had the misfortune to be whacked on the head with a rock.

That group of climbers sure know how to find trouble, and know how to write good books about it!


hex-TROLL

30-Jun-2004
7:28:34 PM

On the South Face of Annapurna ? , Dougal Haston found that piles and high-altitude don't mix --- he had to wear a ' nappy ' to absorb all the blood...

Touching the (hema)oid ? ...


Nick Kaz

1-Jul-2004
8:31:03 PM

I haven't seen the film yet, but I just saw an add on the telly, Joe Simpson is apperating on Enough rope on Monday night 9pm on the ABC, it said something about being the only inverview with him to be shown in Aus so it may be worth the watch.

cheers,
Nick

James

1-Jul-2004
9:39:46 PM

Joe Simpson was on the same show about 18months ago. It should have been more interesting, but the interview was merely a re-hash of the Touching hte Void story. andrew denton is normally a bit more creative whihc would have been better.


adski

6-Jul-2004
1:11:47 PM

kaz i've been looking but the movie isn't out yet in our hick town. Still intending on running a club night to go see it, it's getting great reviews.

deadpoint

6-Jul-2004
3:26:49 PM

Went and saw TTV last night with 175 other Canberra Climbers.
Have to say this is the best climbing movie I have seen by far, had me sitting on the edge of my seat the whole time.
NB. Don't take your significant other, you will never be allow outdoors again.


nmonteith

6-Jul-2004
3:54:25 PM

I saw the interview on Enough Rope last night. On the most part it was pretty boring - rehashing the same story almost word for word from the movie interview. Poor Joe must be sick to death of telling the story endlessly.

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