by Joe Simpson · Pan Books · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780330308595
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Touching the Void is a gripping account of survival against all odds in the Peruvian Andes. Joe Simpson recounts his and Simon Yates's disastrous climb of Siula Grande in 1985. After reaching the summit, a descent accident leaves Simpson hanging from a rope, with a broken leg and in the midst of a storm. Yates, faced with an impossible decision, cuts the rope to save his own life, presuming Simpson dead. However, Simpson survives a fall of hundreds of meters and, with astonishing determination, fights for days to return to base camp. This is a story of extreme survival, friendship, and the decisions we make when faced with the impossible.
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.
