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While climbing in the Peruvian Andes, Joe Simpson and Simon Yates came face to face with disaster. Simpson fell and broke his leg and then was lost. As his partner Yates was starting to break camp four days later, Simpson crawled in through a blizzard. How both men overcame those four harrowing days is an epic chronicle of fear and friendship.
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Touching the void, Joe Simpson
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- Released
- 2008
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- Title
- Touching the void
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Joe Simpson
- Publisher
- Vintage Books
- Released
- 2008
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 224
- ISBN10
- 0099511746
- ISBN13
- 9780099511748
- Series
- Tags
- Non-Fiction, Maps & Travel, True Stories, Biographies, Travel, Adventure, Sports, Autobiographies & Memoirs, Sport & Outdoor, Friendship, Suspense, Travelogues, Death, Adapted for Film, Sports Biographies, Survival, Courage, Mountaineering, Based on True Events, Danger, Guilt, Mountains and Ranges, South America, Struggle for survival, Despair, Suffering, Decision Making, Peru, Misfortune, Himalayas, Climbers, Andes (Mountain Range)
- First published
- 1988
- Original title
- Touching the void
- Rating
- 4.2 out of 5
- Description
- While climbing in the Peruvian Andes, Joe Simpson and Simon Yates came face to face with disaster. Simpson fell and broke his leg and then was lost. As his partner Yates was starting to break camp four days later, Simpson crawled in through a blizzard. How both men overcame those four harrowing days is an epic chronicle of fear and friendship.