THE BECKONING SILENCE (2007)
LOUISE OSMOND
Plot
Joe Simpson, the climber whose tenacious, indeed, superhuman will to survive was the subject of Touching the Void' tells the story of one of mountaineering's most epic tragedies; that of Toni Kurtz, a brilliant young climber, who, along with partner Andreas Hinterstoisser and two Austrian climbers, attempted an ascent of the then unclimbed Eiger's North Face in 1936. Like Touching the Void', 'The Beckoning Silence' is a haunting combination of retrospective monologue and grippingly real dramatisation.