Touching the Void (book) stage by David Greig and that the play would receive its world premiere the following year and would begin previews at the Bristol Old Vic on 8 September 2018, with an official opening night on 18 September, booking for a limited period until 6 October. Touching the Void (book) Touching the Void is a 1988 book by Joe Simpson, recounting his and Simon Yates' successful but disastrous and nearly fatal climb of the 6,344-metre (20,813 foot) Siula Grande in the Peruvian Andes in 1985. It has sold over a million copies and has been translated into over 20 languages. In
Fire on the Mountain (book) Smokejumpers, Roger Roth and James Thrash, and two members of a Helitack crew, Richard Tyler and Rob Browning. "Fire on the Mountain," won the Mountain and Plains Booksellers award as the best non-fiction book of 1999. It was made into an eponymous two-hour documentary by the History Channel that was a finalist for an Emmy award and won the Cine Master's Award as the best documentary of 1999. John N. Maclean's father Norman Maclean wrote "Young Men and Fire" that told a very similar story about the Mann Gulch Fire of August 1949 and the 13 men who died there.