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Title: Touching the Void <>Binding: Paperback <>Author: Joe Simpson <>Publisher: VINTAGE
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"On every level it is an outstanding literary achievement"--The Independent
"A quite extraordinary and moving book... Touching the Void touches the Great Questions in an understated yet utterly compelling way"--The Guardian
"A truly astonishing account of suffering and fortitude... the narrative acquires an irresistible force, carrying all before it."--Sunday Times
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"A quite extraordinary and moving book... Touching the Void touches the Great Questions in an understated yet utterly compelling way"--The Guardian
"A truly astonishing account of suffering and fortitude... the narrative acquires an irresistible force, carrying all before it."--Sunday Times
The story of this nail-biting struggle for survival in the Peruvian Andes is a mountaineering classic.
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- PublisherVintage
- Publication date1998
- ISBN 10 0060916540
- ISBN 13 9780060916541
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TOUCHING THE VOID : The Harrowing First Person Account of One Man's Miraculous Survival
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Book Description Soft cover. Condition: New. Joe Simpson; Simon Yates; & Richard Hawking (Photographers) (illustrator). First Edition, First Printing. Text/BRAND NEW, softcover w/a whisper of shelfwear to upper back corner tip. Memoir of English mountaineer Joe Simpson's (1960 -) successful but disastrous 1985 ascent of Siula Grande in the Peruvian Andes. The book is dedicated to his climbing partner Simon Yates (1963 -) who did not survive the descent from the summit. This epic account of both triumph & suffering, friendship & loss of, won the 1988 Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature and was adapted to film. Seller Inventory # 009410
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TOUCHING THE VOID : The Harrowing First Person Account of One Man's Miraculous Survival
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Book Description Soft cover. Condition: New. Joe Simpson; Simon Yates; & Richard Hawking (Photographers) (illustrator). First Edition, First Printing. Text/BRAND NEW. Softcover/Fine. Memoir of English mountaineer Joe Simpson's (1960 -) successful but disastrous 1985 ascent of Siula Grande in the Peruvian Andes. An epic account dedicated to his climbing partner Simon Yates (1963 -) who did not survive the descent from their shared, successful conquest of the summit. This story of triumph & suffering, joys of friendship & loss of, won the 1988 Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature and was adapted to film. 174 pgs w/photos. Seller Inventory # 019855
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Book Description Softcover. Condition: New. Reprint Edition. "A truly astounding account of suffering and fortitude."--The Times (London)Joe Simpson and his climbing partner, Simon Yates, had just reached the top of a 21,000-foot peak in the Andes when disaster struck. Simpson plunged off the vertical face of an ice ledge, breaking his leg. In the hours that followed, darkness fell and a blizzard raged as Yates tried to lower his friend to safety. Finally, Yates was forced to cut the rope, moments before he would have been pulled to his own death.The next three days were an impossibly grueling ordeal for both men. Yates, certain that Simpson was dead, returned to base camp consumed with grief and guilt over abandoning him. Miraculously, Simpson had survived the fall but, crippled, starving, and severely frostbitten, was trapped in a deep crevasse. Summoning vast reserves of physical and spiritual strength, Simpson hopped, hobbled, and crawled over the cliffs and canyons of the Andes, reaching the base hours before Yates had planned to break camp.How both men overcame the torments of those harrowing days is an epic tale of fear, suffering, and survival; a poignant testament to unshakable courage and friendship."Told with lyrical quality and stunning immediacy, Touching the Void transcends its genre and becomes accessible to readers who have never had any desire to climb a glacier."--New York Newsday"A gripping narrative that should excite armchair adventurers everywhere."--Cleveland Plain Dealer"Simpson touches a nerve of the mountaineering community and the hearts of others."--Los Angeles Times"Riveting, even compulsive reading."--Minneapolis Star Tribune. Seller Inventory # DADAX0060916540
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