Look, I can even review good films!
Touching The Void is a documentary so is absolutely faithful to mountain realities, no matter how unbelievable. It's about Joe Simpson and Simon Yates who were climbing in the Andes in 1985. Joe fell and broke his leg at around 22,000 feet, which alone should have killed him. Other things that should have killed him over four very nasty days include: exposure; being cut loose to fall from a cliff; falling in a crevasse; a dodgy snow bridge; lack of food and water; blood loss; navigating a glacier solo; being left to die. But Joe survived, wrote one of the best books ever (same title), and now helps narrate the only movie ever made that is as good as the book. Basically, when it comes to survival, this guy makes Welshmen who walk around in the middle of winter in just a tee-shirt and not even their nipples go hard look like mincing namby pambies, and he makes that bloke in the States who cut off his own arm look a little soft. See this film. 5/5
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