An account of the ascent of the 21,000ft Siula Grande peak in the Peruvian Andes. Joe Simpson and his climbing partner, Simon Yates, had achieved the summit before the first disaster struck. What happened and how they dealt with the psychological traumas that resulted is the subject of this book.

General Information

ISBN : 9780099771012
Publisher : Penguin Random House
Imprint : Vintage
Weight (g) : 0.182
Publication date : 01 October 0000
Produced in : United Kingdom
Availability date : 01 December 1997
Out of print date : 01 October 2022
Product Type : books

Other Specifications

Author : Joe Simpson
Bind : Paperback
Language : English
Dewey classification : 796.522092
Pages : 176
Illustrations : illustrations, portraits

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Author description

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 theVoid -, Storms of Silence, Dark Shadows Falling, The Beckoning Silence and a novel, The Water People.