What should simon yates have done

He cut the rope. By some miracle, Joe survived a 50ft fall into a crevasse — unbeknown to Simon who assumed he had been killed — and climbed out and dragged his broken body back to base camp four days later.

In , three years after the harrowing expedition, Joe penned a memoir to document the event. A recent adaptation of the film for the stage by Scottish playwright David Greig and directed by Tom Morris has prompted Simon to give a series of talks about his mountaineering exploits, and of course, to offer his insight into what happened that fateful day.

The touring production, also titled Touching the Void, which sees Josh Williams starring as Joe, and Edward Hayter taking on the role of Simon, is at the theatre from March 7 to But, of course, I have to. This is something he absolutely refutes. Why then should I have issues? To improve your experience update it here. News 9Stories. Simon Yates. Supplied Tweet Facebook Mail. It's almost surprising that mountaineer Simon Yates agrees to be interviewed.

After all, he's been burned by British newspapers before, and he can't quite escape being unfairly tagged as 'the man who cut the rope' because of his portrayal in the documentary Touching the Void, one of climbing's greatest survival stories.

Yet here he is, talking to 9 Stories, knowing that he's sure to be asked to once again rake over the near-fatal climb that he and Joe Simpson made in the Peruvian Andes way back in Yates feels let down by the director of Touching the Void. The year-old says the movie was one-sided, selectively edited and — worst of all — left cinema audiences with a powerful and enduringly wrong message right at the end of the movie.

Just before the credits, a message appears stating Yates returned home to England and faced "strong criticism" from the climbing community. They completely understand what I did. Ultimately I put myself at great risk to try and save Joe. Simpson broke his leg on the ill-fated descent of the metre high peak Siula Grande.

Yates already had lowered Simpson 3, feet and was holding him unseen over a precipice when the snow seat he was using for leverage started to collapse. I might as well have put a gun to his head and shot him. I should feel guilty. I hated the place for what it had made me do. Unknown to Yates, Simpson barely missed a 3,foot drop and fell feet into a cavern of snow and ice, from where he hopped and dragged himself back to camp.

He figures he was lucky. No chance. Simpson, 28, passed through Los Angeles on a promotional tour for the book recently and reflected on how the event has changed his life. After receiving a Masters degree in philosophy and English from the University of Edinburgh, he was content just to climb mountains, even if it meant washing dishes to earn a living.

You should get respect from climbing mountains, not from just having one accident. It was a first ascent, a very hard ascent, we did it with style, and that has got completely forgotten. In the narrative of his ordeal, from when he broke his leg at 11 a.