461 - Touching The Void, The Disastrous Climb of Siula Grande
Do Go On
Matt Stewart, Jess Perkins & Dave Warneke
4.9 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 21 August 2024
⏱️ 182 minutes
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Summary
In 1985, Joe Simpson and Simon Yates became the first people to climb the Western Face of Siula Grande, in the Peruvian Andes. On their descent Joe badly broke his leg, and this was just the beginning of their problems... Lizzy Hoo joins us to hear about this incredible survival story!
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REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING:
Touching The Void, (book), 1988 by Joe Simpson
Touching The Void (docudrama), 2003, directed by Kevin McDonald
http://www.tes.co.uk/article.aspx?storycode=2103611
https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/the-melting-mountains-5348834.html
https://www.redbull.com/au-en/theredbulletin/joe-simpson-touching-the-void-interview
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| 0:00.0 | Oh my gosh, our live tour to the UK, Ireland and Berlin is on sale right now. |
| 0:07.0 | We are coming over in November 2024 to do many, many shows. |
| 0:11.0 | Jess, what cities are we hitting up as I passed the list to you? |
| 0:14.0 | Well Dave, we're going to be hitting Berlin, Edinburgh, Belfast, Dublin, Manchester, Leeds, |
| 0:20.5 | Birmingham, Bristol, and London. |
| 0:24.0 | My God. |
| 0:25.0 | Huge. |
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| 0:27.0 | We haven't been for a few years. |
| 0:29.0 | And we've never been to Belfast and we've never been to Berlin. |
| 0:32.0 | Yep. We've heard both of those places are very nice. |
| 0:36.3 | That's right and they love to sell out shows right? |
| 0:39.3 | Yes they do. |
| 0:40.8 | We've heard that because I told you both that they're great. I've had great times in both places. |
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