Essays on Touching The Void

In a documentary, Touching the Void by Kevin Macdonald, Joe’s breaking point happened on the moraine dam scene where he made use of film techniques. He thought, ‘This is it, this is as far as this game goes. I’m not capable of going any further.’...

What are the differences between Joe and Simon’s account of the event? This text is an extract from “Touching the Void.” The style is autobiographical and provides us with two accounts; one being Joe and the other being Simon. This text discovers the fall of...

Touching the Void: A Religious Analysis The story of Joe Simpson’s struggle to survive the descent from a treacherous fall in the Siula Grande is undoubtedly heroic and a showmanship of the limits of man. While this story has been widely praised and adapted into...