Touching The Void: The True Story of One Man's Miraculous Survival

Joe Simpson

ISBN 10: 0060730552 / ISBN 13: 9780060730550

Published by Perennial/ HarperCollins Publishers, New York, New York, 2004

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Softcover book is a clean tight unmarked copy.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Touching The Void: The True Story of One Man's Miraculous Survival
• Publisher: Perennial/ HarperCollins Publishers, New York, New York
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0060730552
• ISBN 13: 9780060730550
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: As New
• Dust Jacket Condition: Softcover Wraps
• Seller catalogs:
  • Catastrophies, Disasters, Epidemics & Tragedies

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Synopsis

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 crawled over the cliffs and canyons of the Andes, reaching base camp hours before Yates had planned to leave.

How both men overcame the torments of those harrowing days is an epic tale of fear, suffering, and survival, and a poignant testament to unshakable courage and friendship.

About the Author

Joe Simpson is the author of several bestselling 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, Storms of Silence, Dark Shadows Falling, The Beckoning Silence and a novel, The Water People.