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This Game of Ghosts
by Joe Simpson
ISBN: 0898864607
ISBN-13: 9780898864601
Format: Paperback
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Bibliographic Details
Publisher: Mountaineers Books
Published date: 1995
Size: 5 x 7.75 inches
Weight: 0.55 pounds
Publisher's Notes
When mountain climber Simon Yates cut the rope and sent his friend and climbing partner Joe Simpson plummeting to an ordeal few mountaineers can have contemplated, the outcome was totally unpredictable. That Simpson survived his experience on Peru's Siula Grande is a revelation of the power of the human spirit to overcome fear, pain and deprivation of almost unimaginable intensity. He did not expect to live it all over again - more than once. The first test was to write his award-winning account of the ordeal in Touching the Void. That meant dragging the terrifying experience out of the deeper shadows of his memory. Next, another fall in the Himalaya crippled and almost broke him. He felt forced to test his nerve again, and struggled on crutches to 20,000 feet on Pumori, near Everest. On his descent he heard that a young, first-time climber had been killed by a chance rockfall. What sense could he make now of this game of ghosts that had claimed the lives of so many of his friends over the years he had been climbing, while he had survived so many events that should have meant certain death? In an attempt to find catharsis for his confused emotions he wrote this e xtraordinary memoir, revealing his early ife and his fifteen years of climbing on three continents, before and after the life-changing experience of Siula Grande. His gripping story recounts, with total honesty, experiences that range from hilarious to poignant to nearly unbelievable. Here are the signposts that have directed him since childhood to measure fear and embrace the unknown. He wonders about the luck or the choices along the way that have caused the loss of so many climbing friends: "Ghosts everywhere I look, all Isee are ghosts - or perhaps I am the ghost, a spectre of my past, standing in the rubble of my present, anxiously awaiting the future". This is a compelling work of adventure and introspection that will hold both moutaineers and armchair travelers spellbound.
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Mountaineers Books, 1995-09. Paperback. Good. cover has light wear and creasing, interior clean, binding tight ( more information) Offered by R&R Books (United States)
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Joe Simpson
Mountaineers Books, 1995-09. Paperback. Good. Good++ to Very Good condition. Minor cover wear, especially at edges (a few tiny tears). Clean pages; NO writing or tears. Light bend/wave to pages from poor storage. Tight binding. ( more information) Offered by BookMom BookStore (United States)
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Mountaineers Books. PAPERBACK. 0898864607 Good Condition - Mountaineers Books - 1995 copyright - shelf wear to cover - heavy tanning - spotting on top pages - creasing to cover - pages appear free of markings (SBB1) . Good. ( more information) Offered by Ceres-Snow Enterprises (United States)
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This Game of Ghosts
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Seattle, Washington, U.S.A.: Mountaineers Books, 1995. Sequel to Touching the Void. 330 pp. B/W photos. Reveals Joe Simpson's early life and his 15 years of climbing on three continents before and after the life changing experience of Siula Grande. Soft cover has a bit of edge rubbing, small creases to front bottom corner and back corners, no spine crease. No former owner's name. Text is clean and unmarked.. Trade Paperback. Good. ( more information) Offered by Ghost River Books (Canada)
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