Touching the Void, the Beckoning Silence and Ernest Shackleton

The North Face of the Eiger



Just to show my appreciation of the two films theat Joe Simpson has made about his own experience of surviving a mouintaineering 'incident' in South America, and a story from the 1930's about an attempt on the until then un-climbed north face of the Eiger, that ended in complete disaster but inspired his survival.





His story - Touching the Void:


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0379557/


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Touching_the_Void_(film)


Clip: http://www.blinkx.com/video/touching-the-void-clip-falling/cPs_nckSY9zs_OIS_Yf7JQ





The 1930's story - The Beckoning Silence:


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1101637/synopsis


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2007/10/23/nosplit/bvtv23last.xml



One of the other amazing survival stories I read was that of Ernest Shackleton in Antarctica as told in the book 'South' Stranded for over year after losing their ship, but eventually all rescued:

http://www.coolantarctica.com/Antarctica%20fact%20file/History/south/south_shackleton_preface.htm

http://www.amazon.com/dp/074322292X?tag=coolantarctic-20&link_code=as3&creativeASIN=074322292X&creative=373489&camp=211189