browngeek

Last night I saw the documentary Touching the Void on PBS. It is an extremely well done portrayal of a real life incident (accident) of two mountaineers, Joe Simpson and Simon Yates. Joe, wrote a book about his experience on which the documentary is based on. He is basically stranded for 4 days/nights with no food/water/heat in icy crevices…plus he has one leg broken:!: The film has a great mix of commentaries from the real climbers and actors who enact the ordeal. Joe manages to crawl his way down the mountain…and the actor that played him is superb. I personally liked the scene where the completely dehydrated Joe is hallucinating…about BoneyM! He has the song “Brown Girl In the Ring” playing in his head over and over…and he says “I can’t believe I am gonna die to BoneyM!”.

This is a 2003 release, i am sure PBS will play it many times now. I highly recommend it!