Touching the Void - Joe Simpson

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Non-Fiction - Sport - Mountain Climbing - ISBN: 0060160276, 0099452294, 0330308599, 0099771012 more

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Winner of the Boardman/Tasker Award, this book tells the story of how two friends, Joe Simpson and Simon Yates, confront the greatest challenge of their lives. Together on the West...
more...Face of Siula Grande in the Peruvian Andes, they leave behind the humdrum of everyday. In June 1985 they achieved the summit before disaster struck. A few days later, Simon staggered into Base Camp, exhausted and frostbitten, to tell their non-climbing companion that Joe was dead. For three days he wrestled with guilt as they prepared to return home. Then a cry in the night took them out with torches, where they found Joe, badly injured, crawling through snowstorm in a delirium. What happened and how they dealt with the psychological traumas that resulted when Simon was forced into the appalling decision to cut the rope, makes not only an epic of survival but a powerfully moving testament of friendship.





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Incredible endurance
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August 14th, 2000


Author's product rating:   Touching the Void - Joe Simpson - rated by Saturn

Degree of Information Very high 
How interesting was the book? Captivating 
How useful was it? Pretty useful 
Would you read it again? Yes 
Value for money Excellent 

Advantages: thrilling, lucid
Disadvantages: painfull to read

Recommend to potential buyers: yes 

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This is an incredible story. Joe Simpson is a climber who was climbing with a colleague, Simon Yates in the Andes when they hit trouble. Left for dead in a cravasse after a huge fall, this is the story of Joe Simpson's fight to survive and drag himself off the mountain. If you don't like to read about pain, anguish and sheer guts, don't touch this book. If you are impressed by real courage without a gun or bomb in sight, this is an absolute must. It is lucid and well written, a real survivor's tale.
 
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