Against The Wall

Yates, Simon

ISBN 10: 0224037587 / ISBN 13: 9780224037587

Edité par Random House UK, 1997

N° de réf. du vendeur 0224037587-VB

Synopsis :

The author of this book is the man who cut the rope in Joe Simpson's award-winning account of their struggle for survival in "Touching the Void". Afterwards, while Simpson recuperated from multiple leg injuries, Yates continued mountaineering on the hardest routes, perhaps the most testing of which was the world's largest vertical rock-face, towering 4000 feet above the eastern face of Paine in Chile. This is his account of that challenge. Faced with ferocious storms, Yates and his three companions should have turned back. Instead, they battled on, living in hammocks suspended over the yawning chasm below. Their greatest difficulties, however, came not from the elements but from within themselves. Almost crippled with fear just below the summit, the disillusioned team was forced into a nightmare retreat. After resting at a nearby town, they returned to complete the climb.

Quatrième de couverture: Simon Yates is 'the one who cut the rope' in Joe Simpson's award-winning account of their epic struggle for survival in Touching the Void. Afterwards, Yates continued mountaineering on the hardest routes. Perhaps the most testing of all was one of the world's largest vertical rockfaces, the 4, 000-ft East Face of the Central Tower of Paine in Chile. Battered by ferocious storms and almost crippled with fear just below the summit, Yates and his three companions are forced into a nightmare retreat. After resting in a nearby town, they return to complete the climb, but Yates knows he still has to face one of life's greatest challenges...

'In recent years, self-examination has lined up with crampons, belays and jumaring as a standard component of mountaineering literature. Against the Wall is a beguiling mix of all these things, blended with honesty in a workmanlike, solid prose style. It is an engaging book, both the story of another great climb and a wistful acknowledgement that nothing, in any area of our lives, is ever quite what it seems' Sara Wheeler, Literary Review

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : Against The Wall
Éditeur : Random House UK
Date d'édition : 1997
Reliure : hardcover
Etat : As New