If you've got broadband, or a lot of patience, you can see a clip
from the film of Joe Simpson's epic Touching The Void film on
line.
It's in Windows Media Player format, about 2.4 megabytes in size
and guaranteed to make you wince as Yates lowers the injured Simpson
down the face of Siula Grande. The voices are Joe Simpson and Simon
Yates interviewed in London, the climbing action was filmed,
sometimes in genuinely appalling conditions, in the Alps and the
film's due out first at the Kendal Mountain Film Festival in
November, then on general release from mid-December.
Stills from the film and more information about it in this
OM article, To download the 2.4 MB film extract, follow this
link. You can also get streaming content in RealPlayer or Windows
format by following this
link.
Thanks to OM member Geoffrey Neil for noticing this while we were
dozing quietly.
