No surprise that they're not making a movie of Touching Void and the 'cutting the rope'. I guess the problem is that they'd be too few characters for a film, basically just Joe & Simon Yates.
The book's great, a real epic, if you haven't read it yet, you must.
Best of luck to Joe on his north face of the Eiger climb.
I was in Grindleward just over a week ago, the Eiger towers over the village. Was there for two days, rain & cloud both days and could barely see the first 2000m of it, except for the occassional glimpse of the higher parts through gaps in the cloud.
However woke up on my last day, to bright sunshine and super views of the Eiger, it really is stunning. There looked to have been plenty of recent snowfall.
It's incredible that people manage to climb the north face, and unbelievable to read that someone's actually solo-ed it.
The weather going to be the key to Joe's attempt, a settled forecast is imperative. Reading his last book though its obvious he understands the dangers.
Posted: 19/08/2002 at 12:33
