Touching The Void
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  • Published: 1 March 2012
  • ISBN: 9781448130207
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: Audio Download
  • Length: 6 hr 52 min
  • Narrators: Daniel Weyman, Andrew Wincott
  • RRP: $19.99
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Touching The Void

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1 Dec 2008
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1 Mar 2012
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6 Mar 1998
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'One of the absolute classics of mountaineering'George Steiner, Sunday Times

Joe Simpson, with just his partner Simon Yates, tackled the unclimbed West Face of the remote 21,000 foot Siula Grande in the Peruvian Andes in June 1995. But before they reached the summit, disaster struck. A few days later, Simon staggered into Base Camp, exhausted and frostbitten, to tell their non-climbing companion that Joe was dead. For three days he wrestled with guilt as they prepared to return home. Then a cry in the night took them out with torches, where they found Joe, badly injured, crawling through the snowstorm in a delirium. Far from causing Joe's death, Simon had paradoxically saved his friend's life. What happened, and how they 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.
  • Published: 1 March 2012
  • ISBN: 9781448130207
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: Audio Download
  • Length: 6 hr 52 min
  • Narrators: Daniel Weyman, Andrew Wincott
  • RRP: $19.99
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About the author

Joe Simpson

Joe Simpson is the author of several best-selling 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.

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Also by Joe Simpson

The Sound of Gravity
The Beckoning Silence
Dark Shadows Falling
Storms of Silence
This Game Of Ghosts
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Praise for Touching The Void

A brilliant, vivd, gripping, heart-stopping account of their terrifying adventure... Superbly written

Sunday Express

One of the absolute classics of mountaineering...a document of psychological, even philosophical witness of the rarest compulsion

George Steiner, Sunday Times

On every level it is an outstanding literary achievement

Independent

A quite extraordinary and moving book...Touching the Void touches the Great Questions in an understated yet utterly compelling way

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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