Movie: Touching the Void

Touching the Void is another excellent and suspenseful documentary movie – the true story of two climbers and their perilous journey up the west face of Siula Grande in the Peruvian Andes in 1985. Apparently it was a book of the same name. It is much better than, say, 127 Hours, which I reviewed a…

Movies: The Ghost Bird, and others

On the return trip I had another 4.5 hours to watch the in-flight entertainment. Started with 127 Hours, since I had heard it was pretty good, given that everyone knows the ending before it starts (well – almost everyone, I suppose). It was about the guy who was hiking alone and a big boulder pinned down his…