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Touching the Void

By Jurgen Fauth & Marcy Dermansky, About.com

touching the void

Starring:

Nicholas Aaron, Brendan Mackey

Director:

Kevin MacDonald

Release Date:

January 23rd, 2004 (LA/NY).

MPAA Rating:

Not Rated.

Distributor:

IFC Films

Description:

1985, two young and talented British climbers set out to tame the unconquered west face of Siula Grande, a remote, twenty-one-thousand-foot peak in the Peruvian Andes. Two-and-a-half days after tiptoeing up near-vertical ice fields, Joe Simpson and Simon Yates reached the summit. Little did they know their epic was only beginning. What ensued is one of the most gripping survival stories in mountain history.

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