Myself, Jacqui and Tom went to see Touching The Void last night in the new Greater Union in Bondi Junction.

Great movie, and very well done, though it would have been better if I hadn’t seen Joe Simpson interviewed on Andrew Denton the previous evening, as it was essentially a distillation of his narration of the movie. It makes you wonder what you’d do in the same situation. I’d never even get to that situation because I don’t think I’d ever be prepared to trust someone else’s abillity enough to consider climbing such a mountain alpine style! Would I have cut the rope? I guess so, since I can’t see what other choices he had, though maybe if I was a mountaineer something would be obvious. Incidentally, I originally typed ‘mountaineer’ as ‘mountainerr’ – maybe more appropriate in this case ;-)