Touching the Void (book) 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 2013 the 25th Anniversary eBook edition of Touching the Void was published by DirectAuthors.com. It features additional photography from the expedition. Simpson and Yates reach the summit of the previously unclimbed West Face of Siula Grande. Upon descent, Simpson slipped down an ice cliff and
Kevin Macdonald (director) Kevin Macdonald (director) Kevin Macdonald (born 28 October 1967) is a Scottish director. His films include a documentary about the 1972 murder of 11 Israeli athletes, "One Day in September" (1999), the climbing documentary "Touching the Void" (2003), the drama "The Last King of Scotland" (2006), the political thriller "State of Play" (2009), the Bob Marley documentary "Marley" (2012), the post-apocalyptic drama "How I Live Now" (2013), the thriller "Black Sea" (2014), and the Whitney Houston documentary "Whitney" (2018). Macdonald was born in Glasgow, Scotland. His maternal grandparents were the Hungarian-born British filmmaker Emeric Pressburger and English screenwriter and actress