Touching the Void: The True Story of One Man's Miraculous Survival
by Joe Simpson
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Author: Joe SimpsonEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Published)
Format: Bargain Price
Published: 2003-12-31
ISBN: N/A
Number of pages: 224
Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
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Book Review: couldn't put it down
Summary: 5 Stars
Simply put I loved this book. I have not seen the movie and had not heard Joe Simpson's story before. I think the book is a fast and easy read. What an amazing story of survival!!
Summary of Touching the Void: The True Story of One Man's Miraculous Survival
With his partner, Simpson, dangling helplessly over a 3,000-foot cliff, Simon Yates was forced to cut Simpson's rope just seconds before his own snow seat would have collapsed, pulling him to his death. Consumed by grief and guilt, Yates struggled back to camp--only to find Simpson crawling deliriously through a blizzard. Illustrated.Concise and yet packed with detail, Touching the Void, Joe Simpson's harrowing account of near-death in the Peruvian Andes, is a compact tour de force that wrestles with issues of bravery, friendship, physical endurance, the code of the mountains, and the will to live. Simpson dedicates the book to his climbing partner, Simon Yates, and to "those friends who have gone to the mountains and have not returned." What is it that compels certain individuals to willingly seek out the most inhospitable climate on earth? To risk their lives in an attempt to leave footprints where few or none have gone before? Simpson's vivid narrative of a dangerous climbing expedition will convince even the most die-hard couch potato that such pursuits fall within the realm of the sane. As the author struggles ever higher, readers learn of the mountain's awesome power, the beautiful--and sometimes deadly--sheets of blue glacial ice, and the accomplishment of a successful ascent. And then catastrophe: the second half of Touching the Void sees Simpson at his darkest moment. With a smashed, useless leg, he and his partner must struggle down a near-vertical face--and that's only the beginning of their troubles.
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