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Movie of the Month: Touching the Void

As you probably saw in my blog post a couple of months ago, Touching the Void is an amazing and hard to believe story of two young mountaineers who came face to face with death in the Peruvian Andes. While I prefered the book to the movie, the movie has the added benefit of interviews …

Book of the Month: Touching the Void

by Hiking Lady

Talk about an amazing and inspiring story! Touching the Void is the unbelievable tale of two British mountaineers who set out to make a first ascent of Siula Grande in the Preuvian Andes. Check out my book review of Touching the Void. It was also made into an incredible movie (though I prefered the book) …