An edition of Touching the void (1988)

Touching the void

By Joe Simpson,Joe Simpson

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Publish Date

1998

Publisher

HarperPerennial

Language

eng

Pages

187

Description:

Touching the Void is a 1988 book by Joe Simpson, recounting his and Simon Yates's disastrous and nearly fatal climb of the 6,344-metre (20,813 foot) Siula Grande in the Peruvian Andes in 1985.

subjects: Mountaineering, Mountaineers, Case studies, Search and rescue operations, Biography, Mountaineering accidents, Survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, etc., Peru, history

People: Joe Simpson, Simon Yates

Places: Cordillera Huayhuash, Great Britain, Peru