Touching the Void
Author(s): Joe Simpson
An account of the ascent of the 21,000ft Siula Grande peak in the Peruvian Andes. Joe Simpson and his climbing partner, Simon Yates, had achieved the summit before the first disaster struck. What happened and how they dealt with the psychological traumas that resulted is the subject of this book.
Product Information
Joe Simpson is the author of several best-selling books, of which the first,Touching the Void, won both the NCR award and the Boardman Tasker Award. His later books are This Game of Ghosts - the sequel to Touching theVoid -, Storms of Silence, Dark Shadows Falling, The Beckoning Silence and a novel, The Water People.
General Fields
- :
- : Penguin Random House
- : Vintage
- : 0.182
- : 01 October 0000
- : 200mm X 130mm X 15mm
- : United Kingdom
- : 01 December 1997
- : 01 October 2022
- : books
Special Fields
- : Joe Simpson
- : Paperback
- : English
- : 796.522092
- : 176
- : illustrations, portraits