Touching The Void Movie Review

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My Touching The Void Movie Review

What is touching the void?

Well, this is a movie that is all about something that a majority of us will never even think about doing.

It’s about challenging both your body and mind to their limit. It’s about putting yourself in a position that no one else has ever been in and somehow someway coming out alive.

This movie is all about the true story of Joe Simpson and his climbing partner, Simon Yates, and what happened after they reached the top of a 21,000-foot peak in the Andes when disaster suddenly struck.

You’d think that reaching the top of a 21,000-foot peak would be cool enough, right?

Well that’s not where the story ends… they don’t just briskly go down the mountain to safety and all is well.

Disaster strikes.

On the way down the peak, Simpson plunges off the vertical face of an ice ledge, breaking his leg with the fall.

In the hours that followed, darkness fell and a blizzard came upon them as Yates tried to lower his partner to a safe area. Finally, aYates is forced to make a decision that could forever haunt him…

should he cut the rope and let his friend die, knowing that this will be on his conscious the rest of his life? Or does he stay attached and risk his own life.

Yates ends up being forced to cut the rope, moments before he would have been pulled to his own death.

The next three days were an impossibly grueling ordeal for both men.

Touching The Void Movie Review

This movie made me feel quite a few feelings that not many movies do..

I felt excited for these guys with their journey to the top of the mountain.

I felt anxious to see if they would make it…and then extreme happiness because they did it! I love seeing people succeed.

but then it happened…

the accident that made me feel sad, a little mad even that something like this could happen.

Touching The Void Movie Review

If you want to see 2 guys overcome a pretty serious feat, then you should take the time to watch this movie.

By the end I was feeling super grateful to be alive and happy that both of these guys are still with us.

You can check out the movie here or watch it on Amazon Prime for free!