 Not knowing the story, I'm glad i saw the film before reading this - you could have put a "spoiler" alert on Jon! Very powerful film, I'm still in shock at the tradegy of it all. Steve
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 I loved it! Joe has an ability to describe climbing in a way that nobody else can. A fantastic documentary just not long enough really. As it was based on the book I thought is would have more about his attempts on the Eiger and more about his recovery from the accident on Silua Grande.
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 I really enjoyed the book and the film. I felt that on film he comes over a lot more introspective and i think he was telling us he had lost his climbing nerve. More importantly he has made it very clear that Simon Yates in fact saved his life as he would have undoubtedly died in the same manner as Tony Kurtz otherwise.
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 A good film, did feel a little short though. The sequences of climbers in the original gear gives you an idea of how much more difficult it was for them without modern equipment, and particularly the feat of the Hinterstoisser Traverse. As an aside, immediately after the 'toughing the void' epic, Simon went and climbed the North Face of the Eiger.
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 More importantly he has made it very clear that Simon Yates in fact saved his life I don't think Joe has ever doubted that fact ever since the incident. It's all the "With hindsight, I know best brigade" that made such a meal of the whole thing.
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 Note to self: Don't climb Eiger 
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 Apologies if we spoiled the ending. I suppose I assumed that most people know what happened, which was clearly a bit dim of me 
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Hi, For anybody that missed it first time, its repeated tonight ch4 7:30pm Cheers.
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 as long as its better than touching the void, possibly the one the poorest pieces of literature ever written
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Hi Wizard, are you sure you are not getting confused with = This game of ghosts? that was dissapointing, but i found touching the void gripping! but to each his own.
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 I would rather drink lager and read Terry Pratchett than suffer touching the void again... (actually I never finished it because, well just because...)
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 I liked touching to void. It was very gripping. Wouldn't say it was all that well written though. Andy Cave with "Learning to Breathe" has to take the prize for best writing. Urgh! Terry Pratchett, fossil bluff. I'd rather read heat magazine. Can't stand him.
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