The survival genre of documentary has seen consistent releases for decades, primarily on television with heavy hitters like I Survived... and I Shouldn't Be Alive. A wealth of shows have a similar ...

In 1985, two British mountain climbers set out to scale the treacherous western face of the Siula Grande mountain in the Peruvian Andes. No one had ever done this, and the men knew it would be ...

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CHELSEA — “There’s always a choice,” says mountain climber Joe Simpson. That statement becomes a constant refrain in “Touching the Void,” an imaginative and visceral retelling of one man’s near-death ...

In 1985, Joe Simpson and Simon Yates set out to climb the west face of Siula Grande in the Peruvian Andes. The men were young, fit, and extremely talented climbers. The west face, remote and ...