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2. Touching the Void (film) - Wikipedia

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   Touching the Void is a 2003 survival documentary film directed by Kevin Macdonald and starring Brendan Mackey, Nicholas Aaron, and Ollie Ryall. The plot concerns Joe Simpson and Simon Yates' near-fatal descent after making the first successful ascent of the West Face of Siula Grande in the Cordillera Huayhuash in the Peruvian Andes, in 1985.

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4. Kevin Macdonald (director) - Wikipedia

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   Kevin Glyn Buchanan Macdonald [1] (born 28 October 1967) is a Scottish film director. His films include One Day in September (1999), a documentary about the 1972 murder of 11 Israeli athletes, which won him the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature, the climbing documentary Touching the Void (2003), the drama The Last King of Scotland (2006), the political thriller State of Play (2009 ...

5. Touching the Void - Wikipedia

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   Touching the Void may refer to: Touching the Void , a 1988 book by Joe Simpson Touching the Void, a 2003 film based on the book; Touching ...

6. Joe Simpson (mountaineer) - Wikipedia

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   Joe Simpson (born 13 August 1960) is a British mountaineer, author, and motivational speaker.While climbing in Peru in 1985, he suffered severe injuries and was assumed dead by his climbing companion Simon Yates after falling into a crevasse, but he survived and managed to crawl back to his base camp.

7. Simon Yates (mountaineer) - Wikipedia

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   Yates commented that after he moved away from Sheffield he had 'hardly seen Joe (Simpson) for nine years' until they went to Peru to film some scenes for the Touching the Void documentary. [1] Immediately after return from the Siula Grande climb, Yates went to the European Alps and climbed the North Face of the Eiger partnered by John Silvester ...

8. Touching the Void (book) - Wikipedia

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   Touching the Void is a 1988 book by Joe Simpson, recounting his and Simon Yates's near fatal descent after climbing the 6,344-metre (20,814 ft) peak Siula Grande in the Peruvian Andes. Approximately 15% of the book is written by Yates. It has sold over a million copies and has been translated into over 20 languages. [1]

9. Charles Furneaux (TV producer) - Wikipedia

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   Touching the Void won BAFTA's 2004 Alexander Korda award for the outstanding British film of the year. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] The Shooting of Thomas Hurndall , in 2009, won two BAFTA Awards and one Monte Carlo Golden Nymph Award, and the documentary Treblinka: Inside Hitler's Secret Death Camp won a Cine Golden Eagle Award in the History category of the ...