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	Touching the Void - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		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 6,344 meter (20,813 foot) Siula Grande in the Peruvian Andes in 1985.
		In 2003, fifteen years after it was first published, the book was turned into a documentary film of the same name directed by Kevin Macdonald.
		Warning: Although Touching the Void is a true story, the next section contains details as to the content of the book and film, and may be regarded as a spoiler.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Touching_the_Void (734 words)

	touching the void (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Some kinds of storytelling are built on this grim joke, and Touching the Void is a very pure and powerful illustration of it.
		Touching the Void brings two mountain climbers back to the place that nearly killed them, writes Glenn Whipp.Over the years, friends have encouraged mountain climber Joe Simpson to return to the Peruvian Andes and make peace with the place where he nearly died with climbing partner Simon Yates in 1985.
		Simpson, who has written six books about climbing, including Touching the Void, which focuses on that harrowing Andes adventure, thought his mates were nuts."Put your finger on the table and smash it as hard as you can," he'd tell them.
	www.cracker.com.au /Viewthread.aspx?threadid=4534&categoryid=11295 (508 words)

	8WEEKLY: Touching The Void
		Touching The Void betekent zoveel als het aanraken van het plafond.
		Touching The Void is niet alleen een film voor mensen die wel eens gaan wandelen in de Ardennen en soms een klimmuurtje pakken in een vakantie, het is een docudrama voor iedereen die van weidse landschappen, goede acteurs en veel spanning houdt.
		Touching The Void bereikt daarmee de ideale combinatie van informatieve documentaire en spannende speelfilm en is een docudrama geworden, dat het plafond moeiteloos bereikt.
	www.8weekly.nl /index.php?art=1566 (580 words)

	Touching The Void: triple j film reviews
		Touching The Void is quite a different film stylistically, but similarly presents a story about human endurance and ultimately, survival.
		Touching The Void is a docu-drama of the highest order in much the same vein as Errol Morris' remarkable The Thin Blue Line (1988), the documentary that really perfected the art of blending real life interviews with re-enactment for dramatic effect.
		Touching The Void is something in between a film that that transcends the tension that usually exists between non-fiction and fiction filmmaking.
	www.abc.net.au /triplej/review/film/s1139874.htm (595 words)

	Touching the Void (2004): Reviews
		Touching the Void leaves you emotionally and physically spent, and grateful it was only a movie, not a mountain, you had to endure.
		Touching the Void is an extreme example of this.
		Touching the Void is, indeed, about living, but not the exhilarating kind.
	www.metacritic.com /video/titles/touchingthevoid (1478 words)

	Touching the Void Audio Book
		Touching the Void is now available as an audio book.
		Touching the Void was authored by Joe Simpson and is narrated by Stuart Langton.
		Touching the Void is a great audio book to use as a test of this concept.
	www.audio-book.ws /books/touching-void.php (415 words)

	Touching the Void (2003)
		Touching the Void is one of the few films in recent memory that truly inspires awe.
		Although it drags somewhat towards the end, Touching the Void is an amazing film of breathtaking imagery and indomitable courage under the most inhospitable conditions possible.
		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.
	www.reel.com /movie.asp?MID=138858&Tab=reviews&buy=open&CID=13 (548 words)

	Touching the Void
		Touching the Void tells the remarkable story of Joe Simpson and Simon Yates, who in 1985 scaled the west face of Siula Grande, a remote, twenty one thousand foot peak in the Peruvian Andes.
		Trying to explain his enthusiasm for mountaineering in Touching the Void, one climber says: 'There's not enough risk in the real world', and he has a point.
		The effect is powerful, and Macdonald's decision to film on location pays huge dividends: Touching the Void is visually stunning, the scenery providing the cold, unforgiving backdrop to the hot rush of human struggle, which Joe Simpson and Simon Yates tell with passion and verve.
	www.culturewars.org.uk /2003-03/void.htm (426 words)

	Touching the Void
		“Touching The Void” is another one of those shocking “true stories” about mountain climbers who come within inches of death only to survive in miraculous fashion.
		This is not only a documentation of what happened, recording how this bleak scenario almost cost Simpson and Yates their lives, but is also a profound meditation on death and hopelessness; an examination, in both climbers, of the human drive to survive that not even they quite understand.
		The reason for “Touching the Void’s” success is that the film actually cares about the development of its characters.
	movies.zertinet.com /2004/touchingthevoid.htm (1267 words)

	Touching the Void (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Touching the Void is a book by Joe Simpson recounting the true story of Simpson's Simon Yates's disastrous and near tragic attempt to the 6344 meter (20 813 foot) Siula in the Andes in 1985.
		Warning: Although Touching the Void is a true story the next contains details as to the content of book and film and may be regarded a spoiler.
		Touching the Void: The True Story of One Man's Miraculous Survival
	www.freeglossary.com /Touching_the_Void (866 words)

	Touching the Void Movie Review - Touching the Void Movie Trailer - The Boston Globe
		What happened next, as told in Simpson's 1988 book ''Touching the Void'' and reenacted in Kevin Macdonald's staggering new docudrama of the same name, is even more agonizing to witness.
		Their honesty is human, funny, and touching, as Yates confesses to briefly considering a version of events that would make him look good during his descent and Simpson contemplates the anger and tears that overwhelmed him during his night on the ledge.
		At one point in the 1990s, Tom Cruise held the rights to ''Touching the Void'' and reportedly had a screenplay in the works; the result would probably have been overblown in all the wrong ways, up to and including a James Horner symphonic score and product placement for Swiss Army knives.
	www.boston.com /movies/display?display=movie&id=3819 (654 words)

	Touching the Void: The True Story of One Man's Miraculous Survival Book
		Touching The Void, a book written by Joe Simpson, is a harrowing first person account of one man's miraculous survival.
		Touching the void has constant, breathtaking events as you are walked through Joe Simpson's journey.
		Touching the Void is, simply put, the story of the human spirit's ability for survival against all the odds.
	www.book-searches.com /d44fbooks.html (948 words)

	OFFOFFOFF film review TOUCHING THE VOID documentary movie by Kevin Macdonald with Nicholas Aaron, Richard Hawking, ...
		While one side of the brain continues to respond to sensory inputs and stimuli — the clouds coming in, water bubbling beneath rocks, seismic shifts in temperature, etc. — the other hemisphere coldly and pragmatically tricks the body into pushing on against the odds when all reasonable hope of survival has passed.
		Unlike virtually every other Hollywood product, "Touching the Void" does not directly announce itself as "based on a true story" but part of the film's power is that this remarkable tale of survival is incredibly and (thanks to Macdonald's consummate skill as a director) vividly real.
		Expertly shot and edited, "Touching the Void" is a breathtaking experience that engages all of our emotions — awe, sympathy, fear, disbelief.
	www.offoffoff.com /film/2004/touchingthevoid.php (532 words)

	dvdforum.nu - Touching the Void - Snudda vid avgrunden
		I Touching the Void är det elementen — sten, vatten och vind — som ställer villkoren.
		Det är intressant att jämföra Touching the Void med Framom främsta linjen som jag också har recenserat för dvdforum.nu.
		Där fungerade blandningen av drama- och dokumentärelement inget vidare, medan de i Touching the Void samspelar i skapandet av en komplett filmupplevelse.
	www.dvdforum.nu /misc/?act=prirec&upc=332431015753 (1145 words)

	DVD Times - Touching the Void (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Fortunately, Touching the Void is graced with absolutely magnificent cinematography and very competent performances by the actors cast for the dramatic reconstruction.
		Touching the Void is presented in gorgeous 1.85:1 anamorphic widescreen, having been shot primarily on 35mm but with bits and pieces recorded on digital video.
		Touching the Void is by far the most gripping (and horrifying) film I've seen in recent memory.
	www.dvdtimes.co.uk /content.php?contentid=11828 (3341 words)

	Touching the Void
		Touching the Void retells their story, which has also been documented in a book with the same title, written by Simpson in 1988.
		It is an exciting story, but does not go into the complexities of why people put themselves in situations that require enormous strength, critical decision-making and moral choices in extreme conditions, and of what makes a hero.
		Neither does Touching the Void explain who the men were before they set out for the Peruvian Andes and who they became afterwards.
	www.culturewars.org.uk /2003-03/void2.htm (535 words)

	Touching the Void DVD review
		And now we have Touching the Void, a study of survival against insane odds that is more gripping, more thrilling than any other feature so far this year.
		This is the genuine article, a real climber in a real life or death situation, and a genuinely astonishing story of man's ability to survive against all odds.
		Touching the Void is not just an excellent example of the genre, it manages to beat most recent fictional thrillers at their own game.
	www.dvdoutsider.co.uk /dvd/reviews/touchingthevoid.html (1556 words)

	Ink 19 :: Touching the Void
		Touching the Void is the documentary film of this fateful Peruvian excursion, the stuff of legend (and fiery debate) in the mountain climbing community.
		The outcome to Touching the Void is never in question.
		For those who have seen the film and formed some opinion of it, some lively commentary has sprung up in the IMDB Touching the Void forum, some of which comes from a very displeased Hawking.
	www.ink19.com /issues/april2004/screenReviews/touchingVoid.html (591 words)

	Movie Review - Touching the Void (documentary) - www.ericdsnider.com - The Official Website of Eric D. Snider
		"Touching the Void" is one of the most extraordinary stories of endurance I have ever seen.
		Because I want you to see this movie, and because you probably don't remember the story from when it happened (though you may have seen the book Joe wrote, also called "Touching the Void"), I won't reveal the details.
		Suffice it to say that one of the men was injured and subsequently separated from his partner, all in the midst of weather conditions that bordered on blizzard-like, with a dearth of food and water available to them.
	www.ericdsnider.com /movies/touching-the-void (546 words)

	sundaytimes.co.za :: Home of the Sunday Times :: South Africa's best selling newspaper :: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Awe-inspiring docu-drama that touches on the perils of mountaineering...
		Director Kevin Macdonald’s docu-drama Touching the Void (2004) opens in cinemas this month and may prove to be a cliff hanger — one that debates morality, mortality and mountaineer’s struggle to survive.
		Based on Joe Simpson life and book (of the same name), Touching the Void tells the astonishing true story of two British mountaineers, Simpson and his climbing partner Simon Yates, who climbed the 21,000 foot Siula Grande in the Peruvian Andes in 1985, a feat that had never been achieved before.
	www.sundaytimes.co.za /lifestyle/movies/goodtimes/reviewvoid.asp (671 words)

	Touching The Void London Movie Review
		Touching the Void is a case of ‘Terrible title, terrific film’.
		It’s directed by British documentarian Kevin Macdonald (brother of Trainspotting producer Andrew) and uses a similar approach to his Oscar-winning One Day In September, blending static talking head shots with the real-life participants of the drama and dramatic reconstruction footage of the story itself, using climbers and actors.
		To sum up, Touching the Void is an extremely impressive film that tells an astonishing story of human endurance that’s both funny and excruciating.
	www.viewlondon.co.uk /review_1919.html (455 words)

	Touching the Void (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		of the same name by Joe Simpson, Touching the Void is a riveting account of two young mountain climbers who set out to be the first to conquer the west face of Siula Grande, a 21,000 foot, ice and snow encrusted peak in the Peruvian Andes.
		After triumphantly reaching the summit, Simpson, one of the climbers, had an accident on the way down; the impact of a fall pushed his shin bone up through his knee and into his femur, a painful and crippling multiple fracture.
		Touching the Void, observantly and without embellishment, memorializes their nightmare voyage through the abyss.
	www.culturevulture.net /Movies8/TouchingtheVoid.htm (708 words)

	BBC - Tyne Films - Touching the Void
		It's all in a day's work for cameraman Keith Partridge, the man who shoots "the scary stuff" on films like the big climbing adventure Touching The Void.
		Partridge's next project, Touching The Void, was to test his expertise to its very limits.
		Touching The Void is an extraordinary and epic tale of adventure and survival.
	www.bbc.co.uk /tyne/hollywood_on_tyne/touching_void.shtml (702 words)

	The DVD Journal \| Quick Reviews: Touching the Void
		Based on the book by Joe Simpson, director Kevin MacDonald's Touching the Void (2003) is an ambitious documentary that attempts to recreate Simpson and Yates' week on Siula Grande.
		It was only after Simpson fell over the side of an ice-ledge, and Yates' precarious footing became compromised, that he did the unthinkable — cutting the rope, he chose to save his own life in the face of dying alongside the badly injured Simpson.
		Touching the Void was bound to become a motion picture, but there was some question as to just what sort of film it should be.
	www.dvdjournal.com /quickreviews/t/touchingthevoid.q.shtml (777 words)

	Touching the Void - Joe Simpson : Read reviews and compare prices at Ciao.co.uk
		I came into possession of a copy of “Touching the Void” in much the same way I found the music of Matchbox Twenty for the first time.
		Joe Simpson’s book, Touching the Void, is a true story of two men’s attempts to climb a previously unconquered mountain in the Peruvian Andes.
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	www.ciao.co.uk /Touching_the_Void__33871 (705 words)

	IGN: Touching the Void Review
		Based on the autobiographical account of Simpson, who through the course of the film fights a much more difficult struggle than his partner, the movie details their journey up and down the mountain, and how they scarcely made it down with their lives.
		The reason the climb in Touching the Void was so horrendous compared to the average ascent comes down to two issues.
		Touching the Void tells an effective story, filmed in creative fashion, but ultimately there's not that much to it.
	dvd.ign.com /articles/530/530078p1.html (718 words)

	IFC Is King of the Mountain with "Touching the Void"
		IFC Is King of the Mountain with "Touching the Void"
		Blasts of wintry weather didn't keep audiences away from the snow-capped adventure tale "Touching the Void," which IFC Films opened on Friday on two screens in New York, and one screen each in Washington, D.C., Denver, and Seattle.
		"Touching the Void," directed by Kevin Macdonald (the Oscar-winning "One Day in September") tells the true story of ill-fated climbers Joe Simpson and Simon Yates as they try to escape death on the daunting Peruvian mountain Siula Grande.
	www.indiewire.com /biz/biz_040127boxoffice.html (735 words)

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