by Joe Simpson · Vintage · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780099422433
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«The Beckoning Silence» is Joe Simpson's autobiographical mountaineering account, published by Vintage in paperback (328 pages, in English).
Simpson reflects on a life of adventure marked by the deaths of climbing companions and questions the activity to which he has devoted his life. From an avalanche in Bolivia, ice climbing in the Alps and Colorado, paragliding in Spain and a final appointment with the north face of the Eiger, he explores fear and the limits of body and mind.
The Beckoning Silence won the National Outdoor Book Award 2003 and was nominated for the Boardman Tasker Prize 2002. Joe Simpson is also the author of Touching the Void. Includes photographs.
For fans of mountain literature, climbing and true survival stories.
Joe Simpson 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. He described the ordeal in his 1988 book Touching the Void, which has been adapted into a 2003 documentary film and a 2018 stage play, both of the same name.
