Touching The Void
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a survivors tale
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andes
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autobiography
biography
camp
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childhood trauma
climbing
dangerous rescue
death at the summit
endurance
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extreme weather
friendship
frostbite
hiking
mountain biking
mountaineering
mountains
mountains wanted
outdoor activities
outdoor adventure
outdoors
peruvian
post apocalyptic non-fiction
psychology
richard yates
sports
survival stories
the andes
the survivalist
tragedy
trauma
travel writing
vintage classics
Product details
- ISBN 9780099771012
- Weight: 183g
- Dimensions: 128 x 197mm
- Publication Date: 01 Jan 1998
- Publisher: Vintage Publishing
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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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 decision to cut the rope, makes not only an epic of survival but a compelling testament of friendship.
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.
