Siula Grande

What would you do if you fell off the side of a mountain, into a crevice, and was left to die? Most people would have accepted their fates and prepared for death. But Joe Simpson when faced with certain death, refused to accept his fate and put himself through hell to complete the impossible task of making it of the mountain. The book Touching the Void by Joe Simpson is a biography thriller, about climbers Joe Simpson and Simon Yates climbing experience in the Andes mountains. This book was…

The ‘problem of induction’ has proven to be one of the most enduring problems of epistemology. Since it was first conceived by David Hume in the eighteenth century, numerous philosophers have grappled with the challenge laid before them by Hume, resulting in a splendid amount of attempts to solve or dissolve the problem.The basic problem of induction can be summarized as follows: suppose that we observe a large number of objects with characteristic “A”,noting that all of them also possess…

provided to support Reichenbach’s argument is one based of a famous documentary made in 2003, Touching the Void. It retells a real-life incident involving two mountain climbers who face a tragedy when one of them has an accident on the mountain Siula Grande in the Peruvian Andes. In the climax of the film, one of the main protagonists has to make a choice between certain death and the unknown when he falls deep into the heart of a glacier and is now hanging there in the darkness, unable, due to…

Touching the Void is a true story about a man, named joe, and everything he did to survive. Joe and Simon climbed mount Siula Grande, but there were a lot of complications on the way down. Joe breaking his leg was when everything went wrong. Joe did everything he could to keep himself out of danger, and try to get to the bottom of the mountain. There are many important things to ensure survival in a difficult situation. For example, never give up. This is what really pushed Joe to get himself…

10 Unmissable Survival Films You May Have Missed “That survival instinct, that will to live, that need to get back to life again, is more powerful than any consideration of taste, decency, politeness, manners, civility. Anything. It's such a powerful force.” - Danny Boyle (director and co-writer of the critically acclaimed survival film, “127 Hours”) The primary difference between survival films and other genres, including adventure, is that they are less romanticized and are thus more dark…

As the two men, Simon Yates and Joe Simpson set out to climb the elusive west side of Siula Grande, there was an assumption of risk; climbing is dangerous enough alone, but the fact that they were “alpine climbing” (climbing in it’s “purest form,” wherein someone carries the minimum of climbing supplies in their pack) guaranteed them more. To “alpine climb” one must rely heavily on their wits, technical skill, and adaptability given that it provides little leeway for error. One has to put an…