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Touching the Void

Joe Simpson

  • 187 pages · about 3 hours
  • First published 1988
  • 20 editions
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1 About this book

Touching the Void is a 1988 book by Joe Simpson, recounting his and Simon Yates's disastrous and nearly fatal climb of the 6,344-metre (20,813 foot) Siula Grande in the Peruvian Andes in 1985.

  • Biography
  • Survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, etc
  • Mountaineering
  • Mountaineers
  • Search and rescue operations
  • Mountaineering accidents

2 About Joe Simpson

Born 1960

Joe Simpson (born 13 August 1960) is a British mountaineer, author, and motivational speaker. While climbing in Peru in 1985, he suffered severe injuries and was assumed dead by his climbing companion Simon Yates after falling into a crevasse, but he survived and managed to crawl back to his base camp.

Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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