Touching The Void

SIMPSON, JOE

ISBN 10: 1856869644 ISBN 13: 9781856869645

Verlag: Random House Audiobooks, 2004

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'A truly astonishing account of suffering and fortitude...the narrative acquires an irresistible force, carrying all before it' Peter Gillman, Sunday Times 'A quite extraordinary and moving book...touches the Great Questions in an understated yet utterly compelling way' David Rose, Guardian 'An outstanding literary achievement' Jim Perrin, Independent 'A brilliant, vivid, gripping, heart-stopping account of their terrifying adventure...superbly written' Graham Lord, Sunday Express

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Joe Simpson, with just his partner Simon Yates, tackled the unclimbed West Face of the remote 21,000 foot Siula Grande in the Peruvian Andes in June 1995. But before they reached the summit, disaster struck. A few days later, Simon staggered into Base Camp, exhausted and frostbitten, to tell their non-climbing companion that Joe was dead. For three days he wrestled with guilt as they prepared to return home. Then a cry in the night took them out with torches, where they found Joe, badly injured, crawling through the snowstorm in a delirium. Far from causing Joe's death, Simon had paradoxically saved his friend's life. What happened, and how they dealt with the psychological traumas that resulted when Simon was forced into the appalling decision to cut the rope, makes not only an epic of survival but a compelling testament of friendship.

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• Verlag: Random House Audiobooks
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2004
• ISBN 10: 1856869644
• ISBN 13: 9781856869645
• Einband: CD de audio
• Anzahl der Seiten: 180