Against the Wall - Hardcover

Yates, Simon

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0224037587 ISBN 13: 9780224037587

Publisher: Jonathan Cape Ltd, 1997

Synopsis

The author of this book is the man who cut the rope in Joe Simpson's award-winning account of their struggle for survival in "Touching the Void". Afterwards, while Simpson recuperated from multiple leg injuries, Yates continued mountaineering on the hardest routes, perhaps the most testing of which was the world's largest vertical rock-face, towering 4000 feet above the eastern face of Paine in Chile. This is his account of that challenge. Faced with ferocious storms, Yates and his three companions should have turned back. Instead, they battled on, living in hammocks suspended over the yawning chasm below. Their greatest difficulties, however, came not from the elements but from within themselves. Almost crippled with fear just below the summit, the disillusioned team was forced into a nightmare retreat. After resting at a nearby town, they returned to complete the climb.

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Review:

"Elegiac, immensely readable, full of the real excitement of climbing" (M. John Harrison Times Literary Supplement)

"An engaging book, both the story of another great climb and a wistful acknowledgement that nothing, in any area of our lives, is ever quite what it seems" (Sara Wheeler Literary Review)

Book Description:

'Elegiac, immensely readable, full of the real excitement of climbing' M. John Harrison, Times Literary Supplement

About this edition

• Publisher: Jonathan Cape Ltd
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0224037587
• ISBN 13: 9780224037587
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 176