Touching The Void - (3 of 11)

[MattTheGingerNinja]

The guy at base camp reminds me of Brian cox

[xSeanyHD]

@MattTheGingerNinja OMG yes same :D

[missjenny801]

Why does the one guy keep saying over and over that he likes the guy Simon better than the other guy? Who cares?

[ChaLeeShen]

Does anyone not use the F word but me?

[MyNexus7]

The book of this is also really good. As in the one about the Everest "Into thin air" when 7 people died in one day.

[Cerridwen7777]

My da' had this same injury, and i remember it well. Can't imagine it happening at that elevation, with no help to be had...

[JessTheArtist]

I was watching this for my homework... and i had to skip it and i ended up at the part when he broke hes leg, the sound made me have goosbumps! >>..<<'

[TokioHotelLuvah]

I thought that Simon let him die :o

[kirsty6637]

7.50 stop smiling you blithering idiot

[optimusidol]

the technique they used to lower simon..with the rope..cant that be done normally.. actually seems like a faster way to get down...or is it juts me?

[AzraSil]

@optimusidol It wouldn't be much faster, since Simon had to climb down to him once the rope ran out, then re-anchor himself into the mountain, and start the process again. It'd be better to have both climbers, whole, uninjured, moving steadily as a team. It's good for someone who's injured, but it's a LOT of work for the other person. As is evidenced by what happened to them, it's also not nearly as safe. Not only was Joe solely dependent on Simon's anchor, but he was also not in control.

[optimusidol]

@AzraSil ok makes sense..i,m not a climber so i just thought that would have been easier..thanks tho

[macgeek2004]

I'm SO glad this is uncensored, thank you PBS!!! (...and the BBC, and the director, too!) This is AMAZING.

[tommyturbo111]

the music works so well!!

[neilus]

i wouldnt trust Simon Yates to make me a slice of toast...he comes across as a complete muppet

[BlackOut321123]

@neilus Funny , I'd have said that of Joe Simpson, far too gung ho for my liking, I don't think this was his first accident either

[Bullet2Margera]

everytime i watch this, the sound of the leg breaking makes me cringe

[NocturnalExistence]

@thypy26 we're all sadistic to an extent in our voyeurism.

[ThePsychicSasquatch]

Looks as though they filmed two climbers on the actual West Face of Siula Grande.

[precociousNERDS]

@ThePsychicSasquatch They did, actually. When the actors needed body doubles for some of the more technical climbing stuff, they actually had Simon and Joe do it. So...basically, they played as their own body doubles. =)

[mhaze210]

This AND 127 Hours (or the NBC Documentary on it)...are INCREDIBLE stories.

I like how one is about being stuck high over the horizon...and one is being stuck deep under the horizon.

The way Aron Ralston survived is EASILY a miracle. Theres just too many factors about it that TRULY make it a "miracle". (even the signs, like the raven flying over each morning at 8:15am, but the day he is finally free, the Raven never showed up...in fact he drank out of a puddle that had a floating dead raven).

[perudiscover]

Peru Discover Adventures TOUCHING THE VOID & NOLE RODOLFO REYES an wonderful experience adventure travel to Siula Grande was made famous, Rodolfo worked during the film as assistant of the climbers and Englis start Joe Simpson, Simon Yates and kevin Macdonald (Touching the void-director) realized in july to august 2002 where itinerary started in Cajatambo and finished in Siula Grande Huayhuash- Peru. visit perudiscoveradventures

[muschi2121]

two men actually ¬_¬

[vohshkab]

i love the way they talk about making a brew like popping round to gandma's for cup of tea so fucking cool

[madaboutorange]

nice sound effects, or is it an effect

[mattsnow81]

LOL " I found the ridge Joe."

[brew667]

the sound of his leg breaking is sickening!

[slammy166]

i have seem great mountain movies....but this is my favorite

[FreakCommando]

Wow! They are better than Rambo 1,2 and 3:) Who dares wins!

[FireDragonZAG]

the actors in this dramatization are brilliant

[spartoecus]

@FireDragonZAG actual footage bro

[espmh1000]

@spartoecus actual footage yes, but the footage is not of their experience. It's a dramatization, a recreation. 

[shurgsUK]

@espmh1000 Ever heard of sarcasm?

[FireDragonZAG]

@spartoecus there is no way they would go to the moutain with a cameraman and one is left watching simon and one is filming joe and wtching him torture thinking: i should tell simon about this.

[Bullet2Margera]

@FireDragonZAG for some of the dramatisation mainly the part where joe is on his way down the mountain on his own, the real joe is doing the reconstruction :)

[FireDragonZAG]

@Bullet2Margera i guess its because he knew no one could act out what he felt during that time