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	Siula Grande - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Siula Grande is a mountain in the Cordillera Huayhuash, in the Peruvian Andes.
		It was made famous by the book Touching the Void by Joe Simpson, about an ascent and subsequent harrowing descent of the mountain by him and Simon Yates in 1985.
		2001 July 17 Noches de "Juerga", WEST FACE OF SIULA GRANDE
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Siula_Grande (254 words)

	BBC - Tyne Films - Touching the Void
		The film was shot on location in the Alps and the Andes including Siula Grande in Peru, the mountain where the original climb actually happened.
		Shooting on Siula Grande was a huge challenge - it's an unforgiving environment with the risk of frostbite, altitude sickness and hypothermia.
		"Siula Grande is 21,000 feet high and I suppose we were working at around the 18,500 feet mark.
	www.bbc.co.uk /tyne/hollywood_on_tyne/touching_void.shtml (702 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Film \| Features \| Kevin Macdonald on filming Touching the Void
		Simpson told me that the nearer we got to Siula Grande the more he began to be overwhelmed with an irrational notion.
		His life, he said, had been blessed ever since he'd left Siula Grande; he'd made a name for himself as a writer and found happiness in his personal life, but now, coming back here, he was filled with an overwhelming dread that maybe, with the circle complete, his good fortune would disappear.
		He felt that, taken together with my allowing the climbers on to the face of Siula Grande, I was practically a homicidal maniac, willing to endanger anyone in order to get the film I wanted.
	film.guardian.co.uk /features/featurepages/0,4120,1089359,00.html (2628 words)

	Camp4: "Touching the Void" on Film - Project Background
		Simpson himself suffered panic attacks, and began thinking that the intervening 18 years had been a dream, that he was once more crawling, stricken, across the moraine of the implacable Siula Grande's glacier towards what he hoped would be help.
		The west face of Siula Grande in the Cordillera Huayhuash range was unclimbed.
		So he and Yates went to Peru, and attacked the Siula Grande route, and in the course of three blizzard-racked days managed to reach the summit.
	www.camp4.com /news/index.php?print_id=511 (1380 words)

	CinemaSpeak.Com - Touching The Void
		The words "dramatic recreation" certainly are good reasons to create skepticism in potential viewers of this film, but these scenes are worlds away from what someone raised on a steady diet of, say, "America's Most Wanted" would expect.
		Siula Grande had never been scaled when Simpson and Yates set out to achieve the feat.
		The men's ascent of the snow covered mountain was successful, but when the duo began their descent trouble struck in the form of Simpson breaking his right leg.
	www.cinemaspeak.com /Reviews/ttv.html (630 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Touching the Void
		Touching the Void is a book by Joe Simpson recounting the true story of Simpson's and Simon Yates' disastrous and near tragic attempt to climb the 6344 meter (20,813 foot) Siula Grande in the Peruvian Andes in 1985.
		Although previously attempted, Yates and Simpson were the first people to ascend to the summit of Siula Grande via the almost vertical west face.
		As part of the making of the film, the director and producers invited Yates and Simpson to return to Siula Grande in 2002 for the first time since the events of 1985.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Touching_the_Void (724 words)

	The Cinematic Verses: Touching the Void (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		However, the Siula Grande nearly became their undoing and the two would find themselves challenged in ways that were virtually unfathomable.
		By filming a fictional recreation of the journey, Macdonald forces the audience to focus on the daunting physicality of the Siula Grande, the arduous nature of the ascent, and the inspiring mental toughness Joe and Simon exhibited.
		The physical experience of the ascent of the Siula Grande is complemented by the complex and equally challenging internal journey both men endured.
	www.thecinematicverses.com /reviews/touchingthevoid.html (574 words)

	The DVD Journal \| Quick Reviews: Touching the Void
		For Simpson and Yates (then just 25 and 21 years old), Siula Grande's reputation should have served as a warning — at that point, the two climbing companions had scaled several peaks in the Alps, but this would be their first trip to the Andes.
		But 80% of all climbing accidents happen on descent, and Simpson and Yates' return from Siula Grande has since become a matter of legend — and controversy in mountaineering lore.
		The two climbers agreed to do some stand-in work (doubling for the actors who doubled for them), but their reactions to Siula Grande — included on this DVD's supplements — form a compelling, equally dramatic coda to a story that's been recreated with painstaking detail.
	www.dvdjournal.com /quickreviews/t/touchingthevoid.q.shtml (777 words)

	Touching the Void Movie Review at Hollywood Video
		As Simpson and Yates struggle to make their way from the summit of Siula Grande to their base camp, you can only marvel at their perseverance in the face of bone-chilling temperatures and a wind chill of minus 80 degrees.
		Based on Simpson's prize-winning memoir of the same name, Touching the Void is told in alternating interviews with the mountaineers, who set out to climb Siula Grande with a confidence bordering on hubris.
		The scenery doesn't look quite as grand (or, alternately, as terrifying) on a 27" TV as it did on the big screen, but in terms of clarity, every nuance is there.
	www.hollywoodvideo.com /movies/movie.aspx?MID=138858&Tab=Matches (1787 words)

	Triangle.com \| /movies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		One of the men heads up Siula Grande in the docudrama of a 1985 trek.
		Plus the true story of Joe Simpson and Simon Yates' fateful 1985 ascent of the 21,000-foot Siula Grande -- based on Simpson's book of the same name -- was so compelling that no novelist could have improved it.
		In a story known to mountaineers, the supertalented duo roared ahead to Siula Grande's summit, something the filmmakers say no one has ever matched.
	www.triangle.com /movies/v-print/story/1040354p-7081237c.html (519 words)

	SacTicket // Movie News
		They expected to be up and down Siula Grande fairly quickly and carried only minimal supplies.
		The third character in the saga, Hawking, was a nonclimber Simpson and Yates met in Lima on their way to Siula Grande.
		Simpson didn't expect his return to Siula Grande to be as dramatic as it was.
	www.sacticket.com /static/movies/news/0305alps.html (1391 words)

	MovieFreak.com - "Touching the Void" DVD Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		After scaling the never-before-conquered 21,000-foot Siula Grande, mountain climbers Joe Simpson (played by Brendan Mackey) and Simon Yates (played by Nicholas Aaron) 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 life-changing.
		The time when things go wrong is on their descent from Siula Grande, a mountain and valley covered with great amounts of snow and ice.
	www.moviefreak.com /dvd/t/touchingthevoid.htm (943 words)

	The Nick Schager Film Project: Touching The Void (2003): B+
		After four days of vigorously attempting to reach the bottom of Peru’s treacherous 21,000-foot tall Siula Grande, skilled mountain climber Joe Simpson returns to base camp with a flened, frostbitten face camouflaged by streaks of blood, dirt, and saliva.
		After a successful lightening-quick charge up to Siula Grande’s summit, the cocky adventurers learn first-hand why “Eighty percent of accidents happen upon descent” when Simpson shatters his leg and Yates (played by Nicholas Aaron), in a controversial decision, is forced to abandon his friend in order to survive.
		Voraciously drinking from a muddy pool of melting snow on his final day on Siula Grande, Simpson temporarily chokes and, with a hint of disgust, spits his mouthful of water back into the ant hill-sized reservoir.
	www.nickschager.com /nsfp/2004/03/touching_the_vo.html (720 words)

	Movie Reviews
		The walk to the mountain Siula Grande for the filming of "Touching the Void" directed by Kevin Macdonald.
		A docudrama of incredible, extreme endeavors during an attempt to conquer the 21,000-foot Siula Grande peak in the Peruvian Andes in 1985.
		The book recounts how he and his climbing partner Simon Yates attempted to conquer the 21,000-foot Siula Grande peak in the Peruvian Andes in 1985.
	ccs.flatoday.com /fe/Movies/reviews/touchingthevoid.asp (478 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Instead, the prospect of spending eternity clinging to Siula Grande, a 21,000-foot pile of rock in a remote corner of the Peruvian Andes, persuaded Simpson to endure one of the greatest survival stories in the history of mountain-climbing.
		That was nothing compared to what Simpson and his climbing partner, Simon Yates, went through after successfully scaling Siula Grande's treacherous west face, a vertical wall of snow and ice topped by a razor-thin ridge.
		That, nearly 20 years later, these two Brits are still the only two climbers to have gotten all the way up and all the way back down suggests the size of their accomplishment.
	www.thedailypage.com /going-out/movies/reviews/print.php?intReviewID=656 (683 words)

	MovieFreak.com - "Touching the Void" Movie Review by Sara M. Fetters (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Not just any would do, however, the duo setting their sights on the supposedly unconquerable west face of the Siula Grande in the Peruvian Andes.
		With no hope of rescue, Yates bravely tried to slide his compatriot off the mountain, lowering him down the face of Siula Grande 300 feet at a time.
		Stuck in a white out and with his partner too far out in front of him to know what was going on, Yates found himself being slowly pulled off the mountain by the suddenly motionless Simpson.
	www.moviefreak.com /reviews/t/touchingthevoid.htm (868 words)

	Rotten Tomatoes Forums
		I'm afraid that the featurette ("Return To Siula Grande") is a bit of a con job, and left me a distinct sour taste.
		But Simon couldn't not care really less, basically because (and this is not told in the featurette) that was not the first time he had returned to Siula Grande (he had been back in the 90's to open a new route there).
		The west face of Siula Grande has now three different lines, and the 1985 route was repeated in 1999 by an American team, with a little variation.
	www.rottentomatoes.com /vine/archive/index.php/t-386018 (3907 words)

	Bounce Back : Film (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		His journey from here to the Base Camp (which takes him just over three days,during which he loses a third of his weight,goes through a period of confusion and falls on his injured knee numerous times) is what constitutes the rest of the movie.
		Both renowed climbers and writers now, return to Siula Grande after 17 years with the film crew to film major chunks of the film.
		Y appears matter-of-fact and says that his expedition to Siula Grande in 1985 was one among the many adventures he has had over the years and, he was here now because he was asked to do so by the film crew.
	bounceback.typepad.com /bounce_back_mental_health/film (823 words)

	HUAYHUASH 2001
		We also took a good look at the west face of Siula Grande.
		The day went by and we were resting and preparing the plan.
		We were 50 meters vertically and 200 meters horizontally from the top of Siula Grande.
	huayhuash.odprava.net /siula-en.htm (798 words)

	STLtoday - Entertainment - Movies
		Joe Simpson and Simon Yates set out to climb the west face of the Siula Grande in the Peruvian Andes.
		In Touching the Void, Yates and Simpson return to the Siula Grande for the first time to retell their story.
		They wanted to be the first to conquer the western face of Siula Grande, a 21,000-foot Peruvian peak.
	www.stltoday.com /stltoday/entertainment/MovieTimes.nsf/Movies/1354D5B474B781FF86256E3F00713D2B?opendocument (673 words)

	Touching the Void.....
		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 mountaineers, Joe Simpson and Simon Yates, embarked on a daring--arguably reckless in the extreme--attempt to climb the previously unconquered mountain 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.
	homepage.mac.com /justinmcgonigle/iblog/B1726909080/C281488431/E827788766 (263 words)

	CascadeClimbers.com - The Pacific Northwest Climbers Resource: SIMON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
		The trip in 1998 was for an attempt on the west face of Siula Chico, a neighbor to Siula Grande.
		He stayed at the same camp where, 13 years earlier, returning from the top of Siula Grande, he had said, "Joe's dead." It was the same base camp where he waited, inexplicably, for three days.
		Yates is the man who, in 1985, cut the rope that held his partner, Joe Simpson, who had broken his leg on the way down from the first-ever ascent of the west face of Siula Grande in the Peruvian Andes.
	www.cascadeclimbers.com /threadz/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=UBB1&Number=431513 (1405 words)

	Touching The Void movie Review at The Z Review UK movie review
		Seriously blurring the line between documentary and dramatic filmmaking, this true story is absolutely gripping as the three men involved tell their story to camera, illustrated by a full-scale dramatic recreation with spectacular cinematography of one of the most beautiful mountain ranges in the world (but then I'm biased--I grew up in the Ecuadorian Andes!).
		The tale is part of mountaineering lore: In May 1985 British climbers Joe Simpson and Simon Yates decided to tackle the "unclimbable" Siula Grande in Peru using the Alpine method of climbing--basically, two men with a rope between them.
		After struggling their way through merciless conditions they reach the summit triumphantly, but the descent is even trickier, and when Simpson breaks his leg high on the mountain they have some very, very difficult decisions to make.
	www.thezreview.co.uk /reviews/t/touchingthevoid.htm (1013 words)

	Rotten Tomatoes: The Vine: Films Nobody Cares About (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Excellent film based on the book by Joe Simpson, one of the only two people to make it to the summit of Siula Grande in the Peruvian Andes in 1985.
		This film is an amazing testimony to the ability to survive against impossible odds, and features some breathtaking shots of Siula Grande.
		Rent the DVD if at all possible, It contains a "What Happened Next" segment and a feature about making the film, the return of Yates, Simpson and Hawkings to Siula Grande, and their feelings or lack therof about it.
	www.rottentomatoes.com /vine/journal_comments.php?journalid=129318&entryid=130941 (209 words)

	From the Heart: Touching the Void \| (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		In the Peruvian Andes lies the Siula Grande, it has haunted and killed many climbers.
		The endeavour to climb it is a true test of courage, insanity and determination of a kind that is not of human.
		The first night is one where the Siula West Face already left its marks in the form of frost bites.
	www.filmtent.nl /drupal?q=node/44 (1101 words)

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