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Touching the Void
The True Story of One Man's Miraculous Survival
by Joe Simpson
ISBN: 0060730552
ISBN-13: 9780060730550
Format: Paperback
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Summary
This is the true story of friends Joe Simpson and Simon Yates, two experienced mountain climbers who met tragedy and triumph in the Andes. At the 21,000-foot peak of the mountain, Joe Simpson slipped and fell off an ice ledge, breaking his leg in the process. Although Simon Yates struggled to save Simpson, a harsh blizzard, and the fact that his own life was in grave peril, forced him to leave Simpson behind and make his own way back to base camp. This stirring account then tells of how Simpson managed to survive and make it back to his base camp, despite suffering from not only a broken leg, but also frostbite and starvation.
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Bibliographic Details
Publisher: Perennial
Published date: 2004
Size: 5.5 x 8.5 inches
Weight: 0.5 pounds
Pages: 224
Publisher's Notes
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.
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Touching the Void
Simpson, JOe
Perennial by Harper. later thus,2004. Very Good- soft cover. 12mo,soft covers,218pp,illus. edgewear,scrapes,scratches,crease back,corners wearing,cover. corners bumped,yellowing edges,clean,tight,text. mountaineering sports. ( more information)
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Joe Simpson
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