Touching the Void Can you imagine climbing a mountain in Peru and it's just you and your climbing partner. Everyone reach the summit of the 21,000 peak that no one has ever climbed before. It's cold, you're about to freeze and as you come down from the top something unexpected breaks your leg. Of all the things that could have happened on a mountain, and there are only two of you. So you were thinking about staying there because you had lost hope. But your partner wouldn't let you, so he decided to lower you down the mountainside to a rest stop. Halfway up the mountain a bad blizzard hits and it's hard to see and hold your friend who couldn't get into a snow hole. So stuck with a tough decision, do you cut the rope or do you both fall and die? Well, that's what happened to Joe Simpson and Simon Yates. They climbed the west face of Siula Grande in the Peruvian Andes in 1985. They had no trouble getting up when they came down, and Joe broke his leg and went through the knee joint, causing difficulty. Since if it had just been the two of them, saving Joe would have been a big deal. Joe knew that Simon could do it on his own, and that perhaps he would be left there to die, because it would be a hare going down the mountain with a broken leg. But Simon decided to help him down, after watching him sitting in the snow and seeing how bad he was. After thinking for a while about how to get Joe down the side of the mountain, Simon comes up with the idea of ​​putting two ropes together and having a pulley device to lower Joe down until he reaches the bottom. While Simon was lowering Joe, a snowstorm was brewing around them and night was approaching. They knew they had a two hour walk, they decided to keep going instead of digging a hole in the snow and waiting until morning. The snowstorm is getting worse and Simon is still trying to lower Joe, but Joe falls down a steep ice wall and is left hanging with nowhere to make a quick snow hole..