Touching the Void

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Simpson, Joe. Touching the void : The true story of one man’s miraculous survival,

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Joe Simpson and his climbing partner, Simon Yates, reached the top of a 21,000-foot peak in the Andes when disaster struck. This is a gripping on the edge tale of epic fear and survival.  Simpson had plunged off the vertical face of an ice ledge, breaking his leg. In the hours that followed, darkness fell and a blizzard raged as Yates tried to lower his friend to safety.

Finally Yates was forced to cut the rope, as moments before he would have been pulled to his own death.   The lyrical narrative is compulsive as the tale unfolds. The next 3 days were an impossibly gruelling ordeal for both men. Yates sure Simpson was dead returned to base camp consumed with guilt and grief overcutting the rope. Simpson survived the fall miraculously, but crippled, starving and severely frostbitten, was trapped in a deep crevasse. Digging deep within for spiritual and physical strength, Simpson hobbled and crawled over cliffs and canyons and glaciers of the Andes just reaching base camp before Yates had planned to break camp. Touching the Void is a harrowing mountaineering adventure that is also an inspiration of unshakable courage and friendship that transcends the genre.
Touching the void was made into a brilliant documentary, to check out rave reviews and more information about this incredible survival story got to  the movie show link  
movie show review of the documentary

The first part ( 10mins ) of the documentary Touching the void,  the full length is 1 hour and 40 mins.
http://youtu.be/qjD6Y_YMxZg