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The mountain climber Simon Yates tells Anna Foster what really happened when he and fellow climber Joe Simpson attempted to climb a Peruvian mountain. Simon had to cut the rope to save his own life after Joe fell into a glacier crevasse. The story inspired the film Touching The Void.
By BBC Radio 5 Live5
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The mountain climber Simon Yates tells Anna Foster what really happened when he and fellow climber Joe Simpson attempted to climb a Peruvian mountain. Simon had to cut the rope to save his own life after Joe fell into a glacier crevasse. The story inspired the film Touching The Void.

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