The Beckoning Silence

Director

Louise Osmond

Cast

• A

  Andreas Abegglen

  Willy Angerer

• S

  Simon Anthamatten

  Andreas Hinterstoisser

• C

  Cyrille Berthod

  Edi Rainier

• 

  Steven Mackintosh

  Narrator

• R

  Roger Schäli

  Toni Kurz

• J

  Joe Simpson

  Self

Plot overview

In The Beckoning Silence, Joe Simpson, whose amazing battle for survival featured in the multi-award winning "Touching the Void", travels to the treacherous North Face of the Eiger to tell the story of one of mountaineering's most epic tragedies. As a child, it was this story and that of one of the climbers in particular, that first captured Simpson's imagination and inspired him to take up mountaineering.