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Touching the Void


Damietta

6-Jul-2004
4:04:15 PM

And I reckon that Simon Yates must be sick to death of hearing about this. The rope-cutting incident happened when he was 21 and I'm sure it is all he has ever heard about since. The release of this movie is 20 years later is curious and would give someone the impression that the incidents it portrays happened yesterday.

While I'm sure it is a great movie (I haven't seen it) and Simon and Joe probably needed the $$$$ - and Joe has reached legend status again which should kick off another round of slide shows and lectures - enough, time to move on.


alrob

6-Jul-2004
4:07:15 PM

talking about $$$$, i also read somewhere that joe is still optioning the rights to a proper hollywood film version, rather then the said docu style.


nmonteith

6-Jul-2004
4:14:26 PM

i though 'that' hollywood version was Vertical Limit.

6-Jul-2004
5:11:23 PM

On 6/07/2004 Damietta wrote:
>The release of this movie is 20 years later
>is curious and would give someone the impression that the incidents it
>portrays happened yesterday.

Apart from the fact that the very first scene says "1985" . . . .


alrob

7-Jul-2004
12:46:52 PM

On 6/07/2004 nmonteith wrote:
>i though 'that' hollywood version was Vertical Limit.

yeah, could have been. although i can't recall joe carrying nitro up with him. a little artistic license there perhaps

earwig

9-Jul-2004
11:51:20 AM

>
>yeah, could have been. although i can't recall joe carrying nitro up with
>him. a little artistic license there perhaps

Imagine if he did though! Instead of the knife, Simon Yates takes a handfull of nitro and blows the crap out of the whole mountain!


Damietta

9-Jul-2004
2:24:07 PM

If you read/saw Touching the Void you would think it was a one off accident. But then read "This Game of Ghosts" by the same author and you discover a life of near misses and f## ups. I would think twice about tying into a rope with Joe (unless I had a knife of course)


Romfrantic

9-Jul-2004
2:59:06 PM

On 9/07/2004 Damietta wrote:
>If you read/saw Touching the Void you would think it was a one off accident.
>But then read "This Game of Ghosts" by the same author and you discover
>a life of near misses and f## ups. I would think twice about tying into
>a rope with Joe (unless I had a knife of course)

I recently read a book by Maria Coffey and in it she talks about how Joe has a reputation for being accident prone (with plenty of scars to prove it)....hmmmm.

deadpoint

9-Jul-2004
6:09:24 PM

When you live on the edge of the what is possible, shit happens !


HEX

9-Jul-2004
6:29:12 PM

Or transcendence...

earwig

16-Nov-2006
2:57:19 PM

Touching the Void has now made its way to the tele - this sunday night at 8:30 on 7.

tastybigmac

20-Nov-2006
10:41:05 AM

gromet, that mountains made out of cheese. better remember the crackers

dave

28-Nov-2006
10:54:54 PM

On the topic I saw the Touching the Void DVD at JB for $9.98 the other day. Just thought i'd mention it in case anyone had the urge to pick it up cheap!

Cheers, dave

Ps. i do not work for JB and am in no way sponsored by them!

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