Last King Of Scotland director Kevin McDonald’s spellbinding 2003 docudrama Touching The Void tracked mountaineer Joe Simpson’s bone-shattered crawl back to life after an accident cast him into a deep chasm in the Andes. Here, Louise Osmond, who directed the equally ace sailing doc Deep Water, films Simpson’s pragmatic but poetic memoir on how his lust for climbing came about; the six-year-old all agape as his father recounted the trials and terrors of a group of climbers scaling the then-untouched north face of the Eiger. Weaved into the sensitively dramatised footage, Simpson narrates how his own accident and recent memories of the horrors suffered by climbers have cooled his passion for the peaks. Avoiding Void’s occasional slips into melodrama, Osmond crafts a harrowing, humane story. The phrase, “I can do no more...” will haunt you forever...
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