The Eiger - North_face (Photo: Wikipedia)
Morning routine today… I walk up this morning (sounds like a verse from a blues song…), made my cup coffee and started to browse the morning news on the internet, Facebook and Twitter… Following link by link I came up to a video on YouTube. Having planned for a tight schedule today I was thinking if I had a few moments to see that. …I had …I clicked …and …I became hooked! I cannot put out of my mind the images, the story, the feelings. …intense feelings. I am talking about Joe Simpson’s – “The Beckoning Silence” (Winner of 2008 EMMY Documentary Award). I haven’t seen that 2007 film (TV). As you understand my schedule was destroyed and I have massive amounts of work in front of my face with so little time to do them. But!!! Instead of working like hell… I am writing about it!!!
In the film there are two stories. The one of Joe Simpson’s and the one of Toni Kurz, the leader of the second expedition to try climb the north face of Eiger. Simpson had a serious accident in previous years. The storyteller gives the conditions and feelings of the accident through the narration of the story for the second attempt ever to climb the north face of the Eiger… the iconic Swiss mountain.
The film is in 8 parts of 9 mins approx in YouTube
I hope that you will feel this film too. Enjoy
