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BBC Documentaries: Season 2010

2010x48 Death on the Mountain: The Story of Tom Simpson
TV-PG

  • 2010-07-27T20:00:00Z on BBC Two
  • 1h
  • United Kingdom
  • English
With eyewitness accounts from former British team mates and top stars of continental cycling, Death of the Mountain recounts the dramatic events of 13th July during the 13th stage of the 1967 Tour de France when Tom Simpson died trying to climb the notorious Mont Ventoux in Southern France. Interwoven into this story of Simpson's controversial death is the remarkable story of how the miner's son from Nottinghamshire conquered continental cycling during the 1960s.
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