11 Best Travel Documentaries Streaming on Netflix

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3. Touching the Void

Site Rank: 5, IMDb rank 9 Total Rank: 14

Directed by Kevin Macdonald
Year: 2003

Touching the Void tells one of the most amazing mountaineering stories that ever happened. On 1985 Simon Yates and Joe Simpson tried to climb Siula Grande by West Face, which has never been done before. Initially, the things went according to plan, but once the descent started disaster struck. Simpson broke his leg and while Yates tried to lower him down on ropes, the pair becomes stuck on the cliff. Yates had to make what he described as the “toughest decision of his life” and cut Simpson off. He left him for dead and continued his descent. Five days later, just as he was about to leave the base camp, starved and dehydrated Simpson appeared, crawling along the ice and snow. The movie is based on a book by Joe Simpson with the same title.

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