THE BECKONING SILENCE by JOE SIMPSON (2002-05-03)

JOE SIMPSON

ISBN 10: 0224061801 / ISBN 13: 9780224061803

Verlag: JONATHAN CAPE LTD, 2002

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Bibliografische Details

• Titel: THE BECKONING SILENCE by JOE SIMPSON (2002-05-03)
• Verlag: JONATHAN CAPE LTD
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2002
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0224061801
• ISBN-13: 9780224061803
• Einband: hardcover
• Zustand: New

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Since his epic battle for survival in the Andes, recounted in the his book, "Touching the Void", Joe Simpson has endured several further brushes with death and has suffered the loss of many climbing friends in accidents which call into question the exhilarating, death-defying activity to which he has devoted his whole life. Never more alive than when most at risk, he has come to see an attempt on the Eiger, with its hooded, mile-high North Face, as the culmination of his climbing career. In a narrative which takes the reader through extreme experiences from an avalanche in South America, ice-climbing in the Alps and Colorado and paragliding in Spain - before his final confrontation with the Eiger and two more deaths - Simpson reveals the inner truth of climbing, exploring both the power of the mind and the frailties of the body.. NOTA: El libro no está en español, sino en inglés.

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Joe Simpson won the Boardman Tasker Award and the NCR Award for his bestseller Touching the Void, which has been published all over the world. His later books, all bestsellers, include This Game of Ghosts, Dark Shadows Falling, Storms of Silence and a novel, The Water People.