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This is a combination documentary and reenactment of a mountain climbing expedition gone terribly wrong. Joe Simpson and Simon Yates set out in 1985 to climb to the peak of Siula Grande in the ...

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CHELSEA — “There’s always a choice,” says mountain climber Joe Simpson. That statement becomes a constant refrain in “Touching the Void,” an imaginative and visceral retelling of one man’s near-death ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. Why do people climb mountains? Especially towering ones where it's bitterly cold, the air is so ...

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In 1985, two British mountain climbers set out to scale the treacherous western face of the Siula Grande mountain in the Peruvian Andes. No one had ever done this, and the men knew it would be ...

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Don’t miss your last chance to see the critically acclaimed transfer of Touching the Void in the West End. Directed by the award-winning Tom Morris (War Horse) and based on Joe Simpson’s best- selling ...