The FiFi Report 046

Touching The Void
I’ve never been mountain climbing but I wanted to see this movie because I thought it I would at least relate to it. Touching the void is after all just like paying off my credit cards. And was it a coincidence that I couldn’t find one girl who would come with me to see it! But it’s not a just a blokes movie, it’s a fantastic pseudo documentary about two English mountain climbers, Joe Simpson and Simon Yates, who make a distrastrous climb in The Peruvian Andes in 1985 and the movie recreates the whole drama interspersed with Joe and Simon telling their story. “All went well for three days until Joe breaks his leg. Simon tries to lower Joe down the mountainside but accidentally lowers him over a cliff. Simon knows he has to cut the rope to save himself” The photography is amazing even going into the crevasse where Joe fell after Simon cut the rope. Scary. But what is really incredible is that he then climbs deeper into the crevasse to find a way out. I sure know how that feels. A bit like buying more clothes because you are depressed your Amex has gone ballistic. But Joe does survives and so does Simon. This is an inspiration! If Joe Simpson can survive a fall into crevasse and climb down the mountain without food and drink with a broken leg, I know can go on a diet and I pay off that Amex one day. Anything is possible.