"reminiscence of a Boney M song he hated thoroughly, ""Brown Girl in the Ring""; at one point thinking ""Bloody hell, I'm going to die to Boney M"". Touching the Void (film) Touching the Void is a 2003 docudrama survival film directed by Kevin MacDonald and starring Brendan Mackey, Nicholas Aaron, and Ollie Ryall. The plot concerns Joe Simpson's and Simon Yates's disastrous and near-fatal climb of Siula Grande in the Cordillera Huayhuash in the Peruvian Andes in 1985. It is based on Simpson's 1988 book of the same name. Critically acclaimed, ""Touching the Void"" was listed in PBS's ""100 'Greatest'"
"interview room, Macdonald did not know if he had anything usable until he returned to London and hired an Arabic translator. The film won an Oscar for Best Documentary. His next film was ""Touching the Void"", which told the story of two climbers' disastrous attempt to scale the Siula Grande in the Andes in 1985. The film won the Alexander Korda Award for Best British Film at the 2003–04 BAFTA Awards – coincidentally, it was Korda who had given Macdonald's grandfather his first job when he had arrived in Britain in 1935. Next was ""The Last King of Scotland"", which"
"Siula Grande Siula Grande is a mountain in the Huayhuash mountain range in the Peruvian Andes. It is high and has a subpeak, Siula Chico, high. In 1985 Siula Grande was climbed by Joe Simpson and Simon Yates. Their ascent was made famous by Simpson's book ""Touching the Void"", which describes the ascent and subsequent harrowing descent of the mountain. The book was made into a film of the same title in 2003 and a play in 2018. Although they ascended the West face, and thereby became the first to reach the summit by that route, they chose to descend"
"Simon Yates (mountaineer) Simon Yates (born 1963) is an English mountaineer. In 1985, he climbed the west face of Siula Grande in the Huayhuash mountain range in the Peruvian Andes with Joe Simpson. On the descent, an accident resulted in Simpson falling over a cliff while roped to Yates, who was forced to cut the rope to avoid both climbers falling. Simpson survived, and recounted the story in the book ""Touching the Void"", which was later adapted into a film. Yates currently lives in Cumbria, UK with his wife Jane Yates and their two children Lewis and Maisy Yates. Yates"
"in Chamonix in the French Alps and Mountain Experience, based in Nepal. Brice's expertise has been used for a number of filming projects in the Himalaya, including as location manager for the 2010 film ""The Wildest Dream"", the story of George Mallory and the expedition to locate his body which was discovered by Conrad Anker. Brice's expertise has also been used for filming logistics for the series ""Planet Earth"", and the film ""Touching the Void"". Brice is a central figure in the 2015 documentary ""Sherpa"" which recounts events surrounding the 2014 Mount Everest ice avalanche. Brice is a founding member"
"Huayhuash in the Peruvian Andes. On the descent, Simpson broke his right leg and during the subsequent self-rescue in a storm, the two became separated. The climb was nearly fatal for both climbers and, upon returning to Britain, a misleading article in a national newspaper led to Yates being criticised for cutting a rope keeping himself and Simpson together. Simpson published an article in the climbing press shortly afterwards, and later wrote ""Touching the Void"". A documentary also called ""Touching the Void"" was based on the book. Simpson underwent six surgical operations as a result of the leg injuries sustained"
"himself had the roles been reversed. Yates later said that he lost contact with Simpson until they went to Peru to film some scenes for the ""Touching the Void"" documentary. He said that Simpson had become ""a person he could not relate to"" and that ""climbing partners are like work colleagues. Some work colleagues go on to become friends, some become acquaintances and some people you work with - well, you rather wish you didn't."" After the Siula Grande climb, Yates went on to carry out expeditions to Laila Peak and Nemeka in Pakistan and several expeditions to the Cordillera"
"Everest (1998 film) Everest is a 70mm American documentary film, from MacGillivray Freeman Films, about the struggles involved in climbing Mount Everest, the highest mountain peak on Earth, located in the Himalayan region of Nepal. It was released to IMAX theaters in March 1998 and became the highest-grossing film made in the IMAX format. The 45-minute documentary is narrated by Irish actor Liam Neeson and was filmed entirely in IMAX. It includes a description of the training required in order to climb the 29,029 feet to the summit of Mount Everest and the challenges faced during the ascent, such as"
"The Touch (2002 film) The Touch (; literally: ""The Legend of the Heavenly Pulse"" or ""The Legend of the Heavenly Mountain Range"") is a 2002 Hong Kong action/adventure martial arts film directed by ""Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon"" cinematographer Peter Pau and starring Michelle Yeoh, Ben Chaplin and Richard Roxburgh. It was produced by China Film Co-production Corporation, Han Entertainment, Mythical Films, Pandasia Entertainment and Tianjan Studios, with the distribution handled by Miramax Films. Apart from special effects sequences shot in soundstages, the film was shot on-location in Nepal and China. Some of the mountain ranges in which the film was"
"fine cut of the film and Oscar-winning sound designer Gary Rizzo (""The Incredibles"", ""Inception"") mixed the film at the venerable Skywalker Ranch in Marin California. High Ground (film) High Ground is a 2012 documentary film about eleven veterans who set off to climb one of the tallest peaks in the Himalaya to heal the physical and emotional wounds of war. The expedition is led by blind adventurer Erik Weihenmayer, the first blind man to summit Mount Everest, and a team of experienced Everest summiters who guide this team of wounded veterans on an astounding journey of body and mind. After"
"High Ground (film) High Ground is a 2012 documentary film about eleven veterans who set off to climb one of the tallest peaks in the Himalaya to heal the physical and emotional wounds of war. The expedition is led by blind adventurer Erik Weihenmayer, the first blind man to summit Mount Everest, and a team of experienced Everest summiters who guide this team of wounded veterans on an astounding journey of body and mind. After an initial premiere at the Boulder International Film Festival Boulder, Colorado, the film was selected for participation in the Newport Beach Film Festival, Sarasota Film"
"above 8,000 meters (26,247 ft.) when they skied from the summit of Shisha Pangma in Tibet in 2000, and then challenged the highest slopes in the world on Mount Everest and Cho Oyu. The film follows the Marolts and their childhood friends Jim Gile, and John Callahan, who was an Olympic cross-country skier, on skiing expeditions into the death zone above 26,000 ft., without using bottled oxygen. At the top of the world, they lock into their skis and challenge the most dangerous slopes in the world. ""Skiing Everest"" also tells the history of high-altitude skiing, dating back to the"
"Joe Simpson (mountaineer) Joe Simpson (born 1960) is an English mountaineer, author and motivational speaker. While climbing in Peru in 1985, he suffered severe injuries and was thought lost after falling into a crevasse, but he survived and managed to crawl back to his base camp. He described the ordeal in his book ""Touching the Void"", which was adapted into a film in 2003. Simpson was born on 9 August 1960 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, where his father was stationed with the British Army. From the age of 8, Simpson travelled between schools in Britain and various countries where his"
"slope. In all Simpson spent three days without food and with almost no water, crawling and hopping five miles back to their base camp. Exhausted and almost completely delirious, he reached base camp only a few hours before Yates intended to leave the base camp and return to civilisation. Touching the Void is a true tale of human endurance and survival. Touching the Void (play) Touching the Void is a play written by David Greig, based on the book of the same name by Joe Simpson. It made its world premiere at the Bristol Old Vic in September 2018, before"
"over the country came to pursue free and reative work in the villages near yuanmingyuan. These people settled down in the rental houses of the village, then they bought painter to stretch the canvas. They made exploration and creation of art. The documentary records some stories during and after this spring. (2) 1995—Remote Mountain (40min)[2] In 1995, the documentary film director Hu Jie carrying simple machines, climbed the Qilian mountain in Qinghai province, which is located in ground 3500 meters above sea level. He recorded some fragments stories about local miners’s life. This documentary was later named “Mountains”, which is"
"The Void (2001 film) The Void is a 2001 American direct-to-DVD science-fiction thriller film starring Amanda Tapping, Adrian Paul, and Malcolm McDowell. Principal photography was completed in British Columbia, Canada. Dr. Thomas Abernathy, the owner of Filadyne company, is leading the experiment in the particle accelerator in Luxembourg to create a small black hole which would be used as the powerful energy source. Although another scientist Dr. Soderstrom, who is present at the test site, tries to stop the experiment due to the possible danger, the experiment is started and the black hole created. However, the experiment goes awry and"
"""The Big Trail"" in 1930 and the western film classic ""Shane"" in 1953. Mount Moran and the surrounding mountains were used as a backdrop for the lake/swamp setting in the original television series ""Land of the Lost"". Teton Range The Teton Range is a mountain range of the Rocky Mountains in North America. It extends for approximately in a north–south direction through the U.S. state of Wyoming, east of the Idaho state line. It is south of Yellowstone National Park and most of the east side of the range is within Grand Teton National Park. Early French voyageurs named the"
"Madison Range The Madison Range is a mountain range located in the Rocky Mountains of Montana and Idaho in the United States. The range was named in honor of future President of the United States, then U.S. Secretary of State James Madison by Meriwether Lewis as the Lewis and Clark Expedition travelled through Montana in 1805. The range extends from West Yellowstone, Montana to Bozeman, Montana and is flanked by the Madison River on the west and the Gallatin River to the east. The highest point in the range is Hilgard Peak at , a remote peak that wasn't climbed"
"up the north side of Mt. Everest with blind American mountaineer Erik Weihenmayer and their teacher, Sabriye Tenberken, who founded the only school for the blind in Tibet, Braille Without Borders. Both ""Waste Land"" and ""Blindsight"" won the Audience Award at Berlin Film Festival, making Walker the only filmmaker to have won that award twice. ""Devil's Playground"", Walker's first feature documentary, examined the struggles of Amish teenagers during their period of experimentation (rumspringa). It premiered at the 2002 Sundance Film Festival. ""Countdown to Zero"", an exposé of the present-day threat of nuclear proliferation, also premiered at Sundance 2010, the first"
"Flood Range The Flood Range () is an Antarctic range of large snow-covered mountains extending in an E-W direction for about 96 km (60 mi) and forming a right angle with the southern end of the Ames Range in Marie Byrd Land. Discovered by the Byrd Antarctic Expedition in 1934 from a great distance. Reconnaissance flights by the USAS (1939–41) explored the range. The principle mountain was named ""Mount Hal Flood"" by Byrd for his uncle, the Hon. Henry D. Flood, U.S. Representative from Virginia. The name was subsequently transferred by US-SCAN from the mountain to the entire range. Mount"
"the Greater Himalaya. He was married to fellow adventurer Veronique Choa in the late 1980s. They have since divorced, and Breashears lives in Marblehead, Massachusetts when not climbing. David Breashears David Finlay Breashears (born December 20, 1955) is an American mountaineer, filmmaker, author, and motivational speaker. In 1985, he reached the summit of Mount Everest a second time, becoming the first American to reach the summit of Mount Everest more than once. He is perhaps best known as the director and cinematographer of ""Everest"" (1998) — which became the highest-grossing IMAX documentary — and his assistance in the rescue efforts"
"the ""Outside Television Presents"" TV series, whose production ""Farther Than the Eye Can See,"" captured blind climber Erick Weihenmayer's historic ascension to the summit Mt. Everest. ""Into the Tsangpo Gorge,"" produced by director and expedition leader Scott Lindgren, achieved the first whitewater descent of through the 18,000-ft.-deep Tsangpo Gorge (Yarlung Tsangpo Grand Canyon) in Tibet. ""Into the Tsangpo Gorge"" aired on NBC Sports in May 2002 and was Outside Magazine's cover story in July 2002. In July 2013, Outside TV entered into a new multi-year distribution agreement with the National Cable Television Cooperative (NCTC), representing more than 950 different cable"
"""Nova"" television documentary, ""Everest: The Death Zone"" (1998), in which he and Breashears climbed Everest to the summit, while undergoing physical and mental tests to record the effects of altitude on humans. In July 2003, Viesturs and a Kazakh team, headed by Denis Urubko, were instrumental in the rescue of French climber Jean-Christophe Lafaille from Broad Peak. Lafaille had developed high-altitude pulmonary edema and was unable to complete his descent. They coordinated a rescue attempt in the dark, and were able to get Lafaille safely off the mountain and helicoptered out for medical help. In 2005, Viesturs became the first"
"The Climb (2007 film) The Climb is a 2007 documentary of Laurie Skreslet's return to Mount Everest after twenty-five years. On October 5, 1982, Laurie Skreslet and Pat Morrow were the first Canadians to climb Mount Everest at the cost of four dead team members. The documentary takes Skreslet and fellow summiter Pat Morrow back to Base Camp, where they recall the traumatic and triumphant events of 1982. Pat Morrow has contracted a mystery illness that might prevent his return to the mountain. As part of the climbing party, Laurie Skreslet has brought his estranged nineteen-year-old daughter, Natasha. She has"
"Freeman. On the Blu-ray + DVD + UltraViolet Digital Copy version of the movie, Carroll and Strzempka are featured in Winter's Inspiration, the featurette that shares Winter's true story. In 1997 Warren Macdonald, an Australian mountain climber, was climbing through a remote mountainside in Australia when a one-ton boulder fell onto his legs trapping him for 45 hours. This trauma resulted in both of his legs being amputated mid-thigh. After his rehabilitation, he returned to climbing using speciality climbing prostheses developed by Kevin Carroll and Hanger clinician Chad Simpson. In 2003 Macdonald climbed to the top of Mount Kilimanjaro in"
"them to 22,000 feet on the north side of Everest. Blindsight, the documentary of the ascent, won People’s Choice Awards at the Los Angeles, London, and Berlin Film Festivals, and was released in theaters in 2007 to major accolades from film critics. Most recently, Erik was featured in the award-winning film, High Ground, which was released in 2012. This powerful movie documents a team of injured veterans; led by Erik and his Everest team, as they embark on a Himalayan climbing expedition, and along the trail, struggle to heal mentally and spiritually from the devastating wounds of war. In 2017,"
"Darjeeling, the group advances on the border between Sikkim and Nepal. After climbing through the Yalung Chu valley, the summit is approached by a very steep glacier: three Nepalese carriers and a Swiss participant lose their lives falling into a crevasse at an altitude of 6,500 metres. The expedition is thus brutally stopped and the return journey through the Sikkim mountains is made without Crowley, who fled after the avalanche. In 1919, Dr Georges Montandon, an ethnologist from Neuchâtel, is commissioned by the ICRC to visit the Austro-Hungarian prison camps in Siberia. Jules Jacot-Guillarmod is part of the nine-month mission"
"the highest mountain ranges in the world. Over a period of four weeks and 400 km, these young people will have to fight their way from the edge of the Amazon Basin, climb to over 5000m to reach the snowline on Cotopaxi, the highest active volcano in the world, and then descend to sea level, wading through miles of swamp before reaching the Pacific Ocean.They are led by ex-SAS commando Ken Hames. This series was first transmitted on BBC Two in May 2008. Beyond Boundaries Beyond Boundaries is a Reality TV series produced by 'Diverse Bristol' for BBC Two. Each"
"from college, Krakauer spent three weeks alone in the wilderness of the Stikine Icecap region of Alaska and climbed a new route on the Devils Thumb, an experience he described in ""Eiger Dreams"" and in ""Into the Wild. "" In 1992, he made his way to Cerro Torre in the Andes of Patagonia—a sheer granite peak considered to be one of the most difficult technical climbs in the world. Krakauer's most recognized climb was a guided ascent of Mount Everest that became known as the 1996 Mount Everest disaster. Soon after summitting the peak, Krakauer's team met with disaster as"
"climbing all the high passes between them, covering a total of approximately 1,100km of Himalayan terrain."". Through his 2,000-kilometre, 132-day trans-Himalayan expedition from Mount Everest to Mount Kailash, Malli wanted to bring to everyone’s attention the damage being done to both hills and plains by global warming and also to help in mapping the change in glacier topography. South America, and especially its peaks, were a source of fascination for Malli, who travelled there often after first summiting Mt. Aconcagua in 2005. Malli relished the opportunity of standing at top of peaks and of realizing the relative insignificance of humans"
"agreed to their use in the film on the understanding that his name would not be used for publicity. According to author Elliot Huntley, MacGillivray chose Harrison's music for its ""spiritual quality"" and ""his ties to eastern religion"". Everest (1998 film) Everest is a 70mm American documentary film, from MacGillivray Freeman Films, about the struggles involved in climbing Mount Everest, the highest mountain peak on Earth, located in the Himalayan region of Nepal. It was released to IMAX theaters in March 1998 and became the highest-grossing film made in the IMAX format. The 45-minute documentary is narrated by Irish actor"
"a friend of her biological father. She met her birth mother three days after her sixteenth birthday, followed by her father, three weeks later. She would go on to reunite with all of her ten siblings—the last, a sister, at the age of twenty-two. ""Two Worlds Colliding"" is a 2004 documentary following the experience of Darrell Night, an Indigenous man dumped by police in a field on the outskirts of Saskatchewan in January 2000 in -20 C temperature. The documentary investigate the ""freezing deaths"" of Indigenous peoples in the early 2000's and the cementing of distrust and fear of the"
"acoustic concert. This Everest Rocks trek culminated with a grand finale concert in Kathmandu on 29 October and raised more than US$250,000 for the only charitable cancer hospital in Nepal, situated at Bhaktapur (approx. 10 miles east of Kathmandu). Alex Coletti (producer of MTV's ""Unplugged ""series) filmed the trek for a documentary, Everest Rocks, which premiered on the Palladia channel on 7 September 2008 and was also released on DVD. In October 2008, the setting was Macchu Picchu and the concert was Peru Rocks. Then, in September 2009, he again joined Love Hope Strength trekkers to undertake another charity trek"