Touching The Void

Joe Simpson

ISBN 10: 0224025457 / ISBN 13: 9780224025454

Edité par Jonathan Cape, 1988

A propos de cet article

First edition, second state with corrected ISBN label inside. Worn dust jacket has some creasing and short tears to the edges, foxing to the page edges. Shipped from the UK in recyclable card packaging.

N° de réf. du vendeur cb053-525-0911

Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Touching The Void
• Éditeur: Jonathan Cape
• Date de parution: 1988
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0224025457
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780224025454
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: First Edition
• État de l'article: Good
• État de la jaquette: Good
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Books > Sport > Other Sport

A propos de ce titre

Synopsis

This book is an illustrated account of the ascent of the west face of the 21,000ft peak, Siula Grande, in the Peruvian Andes. The author and his climbing partner, Simon Yates, achieved the summit in June 1985 before disaster struck. A few days later, Yates staggered into base camp, exhausted and frostbitten, to tell their non-climbing companion that Joe was dead. For three days Simon Yates, believing that he had caused his friend's death, suffered torment and guilt. However, a cry in the night led them to Joe, badly injured and delirious, crawling through the snow. Far from causing his friend's death, Simon had paradoxically saved his life when he cut the rope. What happened and how they dealt with the resulting psychological trauma is the subject of this book.

Présentation de l'éditeur

"A truly astounding account of suffering and fortitude."
-- The Times (London)

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 hopped, hobbled, and crawled over the cliffs and canyons of the Andes, reaching the base hours before Yates had planned to break camp.

How both men overcame the torments of those harrowing days is an epic tale of fear, suffering, and survival; a poignant testament to unshakable courage and friendship.

"Told with lyrical quality and stunning immediacy, Touching the Void transcends its genre and becomes accessible to readers who have never had any desire to climb a glacier."
-- New York Newsday

"A gripping narrative that should excite armchair adventurers everywhere."
--Cleveland Plain Dealer

"Simpson touches a nerve of the mountaineering community and the hearts of others."
--Los Angeles Times

"Riveting, even compulsive reading."
--Minneapolis Star Tribune