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Mullin
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| Tell a Friend Posted: Fri Nov 05, 2004 9:41 am Post subject: Touching The Void |
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Touching The Void was on Channel 4 at 9 last night, I had seen it before on video but I had to watch it again, as it was just an amazing film.
It was a documentary film of a mountaineering tragedy that happened almost two decades ago, there was no actual footage of the event. It's a gripping outdoor adventure and the movies is the most inspiring epic survival story in years.
The film tells the tale of how, in 1985, Joe Simpson and his fellow-Brit climbing partner, Simon Yates, set out to be the first to scale Siula Grande, a 21,000-foot peak in the Peruvian Andes.
After three and a half days ascent up the mountain, Simpson falls and brakes his leg in several places, which, since the pair were climbing alpine style, without base camps and only the supplies they could carry on their backs amounted to a death sentence.
The rest of the movie shows one complication after another, Yates cuts Simpson loose and leaves him for dead, and Simpson has to struggle out of this most impossible dilemma.
It truly is an amazing film, which shows courage and strenght and if you managed to miss it last night then I strongly suggest you go and hire it out or watch it on Film 4 where it is being showed pretty much every night at the moment.
By Amy Mullin - 05.11.04 |
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ash_the_minx
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| Tell a Friend Posted: Fri Nov 05, 2004 7:43 pm Post subject: |
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| I watched that!!! really good and very intense! |
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Mullin
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| Tell a Friend Posted: Mon Nov 08, 2004 10:57 am Post subject: |
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| It was wasnt it! I want to watch it again! I may have to buy it! :D |
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ash_the_minx
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| Tell a Friend Posted: Mon Nov 15, 2004 9:18 pm Post subject: |
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| damn straight! |
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Mullin
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| Tell a Friend Posted: Tue Nov 16, 2004 10:42 am Post subject: |
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| I am going to get someone to buy it for me for crimbo!! :D What are you getting for crimbo? |
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ash_the_minx
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| Tell a Friend Posted: Sat Nov 20, 2004 12:22 pm Post subject: |
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| prob nothing!!! i owe my mum a hundred quid and i said just take it out of me xmas stash and then I think she may be getting me a b+b for the night! |
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Mullin
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| Tell a Friend Posted: Mon Nov 22, 2004 11:17 am Post subject: |
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| Oooh right! Well I am sure she will buy you something!! :D |
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