bushpig 0 Posted August 13, 2008 Share Posted August 13, 2008 Anyone seen it? Already been talked about? I saw it on tv the other night. Amazing story. The guys look like they were pretty stupid to be doing what they were doing, but how the hell did the one guy survive?! Link to post Share on other sites
Ezorisu 0 Posted August 13, 2008 Share Posted August 13, 2008 Quite astonishing he survived. Link to post Share on other sites
bushpig 0 Posted August 13, 2008 Author Share Posted August 13, 2008 It was indeed. I can't imagine going through that. Link to post Share on other sites
thursday 1 Posted August 13, 2008 Share Posted August 13, 2008 I don't want to google it. Can you tell me what it's about. Link to post Share on other sites
bushpig 0 Posted August 13, 2008 Author Share Posted August 13, 2008 2 climbers that go up an unclimbed peak in the Andes (I think) and get into all sorts of trouble. The one guy ends up having to cut his mate off a rope as he is dangling over a cliff with a busted knee/leg, who then falls into a crevass, pretty deep. Cut a long story short they both survived. Awesome story. Link to post Share on other sites
yoroshiku onegai shimasu 2 Posted August 13, 2008 Share Posted August 13, 2008 Great stuff. Just got rent it! Link to post Share on other sites
thursday 1 Posted August 13, 2008 Share Posted August 13, 2008 thanks BP just picked it up from HMV Link to post Share on other sites
Tubby Beaver 209 Posted August 16, 2008 Share Posted August 16, 2008 ah I've seen that! Link to post Share on other sites
me jane 0 Posted August 16, 2008 Share Posted August 16, 2008 I read the book a while back. Link to post Share on other sites
bushpig 0 Posted August 16, 2008 Author Share Posted August 16, 2008 Did one of the guys write it? Link to post Share on other sites
thursday 1 Posted August 16, 2008 Share Posted August 16, 2008 yeah, Joe Simpson wrote it. The trip was in 1985, the film adaptation to the book was done in 2003, winning the BAFTA in 04. That's just from reading the DVD cover. Link to post Share on other sites
bushpig 0 Posted August 16, 2008 Author Share Posted August 16, 2008 did you watch it yet? Link to post Share on other sites
thursday 1 Posted August 16, 2008 Share Posted August 16, 2008 not yet BP. Got a lot on this weekend. Somehow iget the feeling I know what happens Link to post Share on other sites
Kumapix 0 Posted August 17, 2008 Share Posted August 17, 2008 Originally Posted By: thursday Somehow iget the feeling I know what happens actually, it's the exact opposite of what you think! btw just finished watching it....it was epic. Thanks BP for letting us know about it. I know I will def never go ice climbing! Link to post Share on other sites
bushpig 0 Posted August 17, 2008 Author Share Posted August 17, 2008 no worries. Pretty freaky eh! I was glued to my seat watching it. Link to post Share on other sites
thursday 1 Posted August 17, 2008 Share Posted August 17, 2008 it all adds to the suspense. You mean they don't bothsurvive? Link to post Share on other sites
thursday 1 Posted August 17, 2008 Share Posted August 17, 2008 and thanks again BP. Link to post Share on other sites
bushpig 0 Posted August 17, 2008 Author Share Posted August 17, 2008 I thought more people on here would have seen it to be honest. Link to post Share on other sites
thursday 1 Posted August 17, 2008 Share Posted August 17, 2008 no. This place is full of dickheads like me. Link to post Share on other sites
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yamayamayama 2 Posted August 20, 2008 Share Posted August 20, 2008 Really enjoyed that movie. Link to post Share on other sites
skidaisuki 0 Posted August 27, 2008 Share Posted August 27, 2008 thursday - the guy who wrote the book didn't survive. Sorry to break it to you... Link to post Share on other sites
neversummer 0 Posted September 4, 2008 Share Posted September 4, 2008 stuck inside a crevase (SP?), fighting your inner demons, not sure where or what comes next...I wish I had that much drive to suceed. Link to post Share on other sites
Hornster 0 Posted September 4, 2008 Share Posted September 4, 2008 As a passionate and keen mountaineer myself I have seen the movie read the book along with countless other similar mountaineering epic stories of tragedy and survival. I was also fortunate enough to have met Joe Simpson in person at the premier of the movie, Touching The Void. Joe is well known and well respected within the UK mountaineering circles and a really great guy as well. Link to post Share on other sites
JPchucky 0 Posted September 5, 2008 Share Posted September 5, 2008 For whoever asked earlier, the film is about Joe Simpson and Simon Yates climb of the west face of 6,344 metre Siula Grande. BP, I must ask. What seems "pretty stupid" about attempting that route? It's a calculated risk just like anytime we duck a rope, or exit through a BC gate. The better the goods, the higher the risk I'm willing to take to get on that. I've been to Siula Grande, it's quite inspiring, and I hope to return one day. What was stupid was was how Yate's knew he was down climbing, and didn't belay him down the 20' cliff or whatever it was, he prolly wouldn't have fell. They didn't dig a cave at nightfall. Yate's didn't anchor himself while belaying. Yate's then cut the rope while still having 150' of rope left because his hands were so frozen that he couldn't get the knot holding the twin 150's together through the belay plate. Then Yate's had one more screw, and one of the twins, he easily could have set a mediocre anchor, rapped down to poke around abit, but he bounced, and I'm not even going to get into how easily he could have secured his partner before digging his pit to crash out for the night. Anyone with basic mountaineering skills could have secured him. It should also be noted that the common decent for any of the routes on Siula Grande is to rap the face, rather than decend the ridge. That was stupid... I'm never climbing with Joe Yates!! If Yate's knew what he was doing Joe Simpsons story of survival however is amazing!! Where the movie ends it then takes more than three days by mule and truck to get to a hospital in Lima... however the doctors wouldn't treat him till his insurance cleared two days later! Link to post Share on other sites
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