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In 1985, Joe Simpson, 21, and Simon Yates, 25, became the first people to make it to the top of the 21,000 foot Siula Grande peak in the Peruvian Andes.

Their story is chronicled in “Touching the Void,” now in theaters.

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Edited by Cara DiPasquale (cdipasquale@tribune.com) and Victoria Rodriguez (vrodriguez@tribune.com)