Touching the Void (film) Touching the Void (film) Touching the Void is a 2003 docudrama survival film directed by Kevin MacDonald and starring Brendan Mackey, Nicholas Aaron, and Ollie Ryall. The plot concerns Joe Simpson's and Simon Yates's disastrous and near-fatal climb of Siula Grande in the Cordillera Huayhuash in the Peruvian Andes in 1985. It is based on Simpson's 1988 book of the same name. Critically acclaimed, "Touching the Void" was listed in PBS's "100 'Greatest' Documentaries of All Time". "The Guardian" described it as "the most successful documentary in British cinema history". In 1985, Joe Simpson and Simon Yates, both experienced mountaineers,
Battle for the Old Mountain Jug Mountaineers holding a 59–18–1 advantage over the Western Carolina Catamounts. The two teams had squared off for 68 consecutive years since the game was suspended for World War II, 1942–1945. Battle for the Old Mountain Jug The Battle for the Old Mountain Jug was an American college football rivalry game played between the Mountaineers of Appalachian State University and the Catamounts of Western Carolina University. The rivalry went dormant when Appalachian State moved to the Sun Belt Conference after the 2013 season. The Mountaineers and Catamounts first played a football game in 1932, the two teams played annually without interruption