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Joe Simpson : Touching the Void
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Author: Joe Simpson
Title: Touching the Void
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Published in: English
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Date: 2004-12-11
ISBN: 0099452294
Publisher: Vintage
Weight: 0.4 pounds
Size: 0.59 x 5.04 x 7.83 inches
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Touching the Void Joe Simpson and his climbing partner, Simon Yates, had just reached the top of a 21,000-foot peak in the Andes when disaster struck. Simpson plunged off the vertical face of an ice ledge, breaking his leg. In the hours that followed, darkness fell and a blizzard raged as Yates tried to lower his friend to safety. Finally, Yates was forced to cut the rope, moments before he would have been pulled t... Full description
Reviews: lotuscandy (United Kingdom) (2008/04/28):
WINNER OF THE NCR AND BOARDMAN TASKER AWARDS!

"AN ABSOLUTE CLASSIC OF MOUNTAINEERING. A TRULY ASTONISHING ACCOUNT OF SUFFERING AND FORTITUDE." - SUNDAY TIMES



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