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Touching The Void: The Harrowing First Person Account Of One Man's
Touching The Void The Harrowing First Person Account Of One Man's Author:Joe Simpson Joe Simpson and Simon Yates were descending a 21,000-foot peak in the Andes when Simpson fell off an ice ledge, breaking his leg. In a desperate struggle to get his friend off the mountain, Yates lowered Simpson over a 3,000-foot cliff. When his belay collapsed, Yates was forced to cut the ropes just seconds before he would have been pulled to... more » his own death. Simpson fell away into the dark, leaving Yates to assume his partner was dead. After a search, Yates returned to base. Four days later, and in a tremendous feat of endurance, Simpson crawled into camp, half dead. An epic chronicle of suffering and survival, and of the triumph of the human spirit. "Simpson touches a nerve of the mountaineering community and the hearts of others." (Los Angeles Times)« less