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Book Review of Touching the Void: The Harrowing First Person Account Of One Man's Miraculous Survival

Touching the Void: The Harrowing First Person Account Of One Man's Miraculous Survival
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Frightening true story about two mountain climbers, one of whom must cut the rope that holds him to the other before slipping into a mountain crevasse. Really makes you wonder what you would do in that situation!

There is lots of technical mountain climbing terms in the book (a glossary in the back of the book helps), but the story is so compelling that you can get past it easily.