Touching the Void

It doesn't matter that this is a factual documentary; it's still an absolutely terrifying film, with a story that's so far beyond ordinary experience, it might as well be pure fiction.

...builds into a chilling depiction of the agonising disintegration of body and mind as they are exposed to the elements.

Touching the Void is the most harrowing movie about mountain climbing I have seen, or can imagine.

Mike Eley's photography is outstanding—what with all the wind and snow dancing off its peak, the Siula Grande is not unlike a beast with white hair whose fragile network of meringues and mushrooms are the veins...

...[a] story of astounding courage and abject fear.