Touching the Void by Joe Simpson (1988) Southern Alps in the slim

in the slim

general nature of the routes

I have ten copies

containing a brief introduction and thereafter a list of recorded ascents harvested from the National Park climber registrations

Touching the Void by Joe Simpson (1988) Southern Alps in the slimThe Harrowing First Person Account of One Man's Miraculous Survival. One of mountaineerings most famous stories, this book tells of Joe Simpson and Simon Yates climb of Siula Grande, in the Cordillera Huayhuash of Peru. Simpson broke his leg on the descent and had to be lowered down the mountain by Yates. Amid a storm and mishap, Yates was forced to cut the rope, sending Simpson to his presumed doom. But Simpson survived the fall, landed in a deep