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Touching the Void
Joe Simpson
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Description for Touching the Void
Paperback. An account of the ascent of the 21,000ft Siula Grande peak in the Peruvian Andes. Joe Simpson and his climbing partner, Simon Yates, had achieved the summit before the first disaster struck. What happened and how they dealt with the psychological traumas that resulted is the subject of this book. Num Pages: 224 pages, illustrations, portraits. BIC Classification: 1KLSX; BTP; WSZG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 15. Weight in Grams: 190.
The book behind the BAFTA award-winning film.
Winner of the NCR Award for non-fiction and the Boardman Tasker award.
Touching the Void is the heart-stopping account of Joe Simpson's terrifying adventure in the Peruvian Andes. He and his climbing partner, Simon, reached the the summit of the remote Siula Grande in June 1995. A few days later, Simon staggered into Base Camp, exhausted and frost-bitten, with news that that Joe was dead.
What happened to Joe, and how the pair dealt with the psychological traumas that resulted when Simon was forced into the appalling ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
1998
Condition
New
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099771012
SKU
9780099771012
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
About Joe Simpson
Joe Simpson is the author of several bestselling books, of which the first,Touching the Void, won both the NCR award and the Boardman Tasker Award. His later books are This Game of Ghosts - the sequel to Touching the Void - Storms of Silence, Dark Shadows Falling, The Beckoning Silence and one previous novel, The Water People.
Reviews for Touching the Void
A brilliant, vivd, gripping, heart-stopping account of their terrifying adventure... Superbly written
Sunday Express
One of the absolute classics of mountaineering...a document of psychological, even philosophical witness of the rarest compulsion
George Steiner
Sunday Times
On every level it is an outstanding literary achievement
Independent
A quite extraordinary and moving book...Touching the Void ... Read more
Sunday Express
One of the absolute classics of mountaineering...a document of psychological, even philosophical witness of the rarest compulsion
George Steiner
Sunday Times
On every level it is an outstanding literary achievement
Independent
A quite extraordinary and moving book...Touching the Void ... Read more