![]() ![]() ![]() Simon opts to stay with Joe for as long as he can, and by tying together their only ropes, they create a system of lowering one another down the sheer face of the mountain. Joe candidly discusses his awareness that Simon will at some point be forced to make a decision to leave him to die on the mountain face.ĩ00 meters directly below them is the relative safety of a glacier, and a short trek back to base camp where a third friend is waiting for them. Rapidly running low on food, water and fuel, both men recount that they knew this could mean death for one or both of them. On their way down, a short slip turned into disaster, when Joe broke his right leg, and smashed his tibia through his knee. ![]() ![]() In 1985, 25-year-old Joe and his 21-year-old climbing partner Simon, successfully summited the previously unclimbed west face of Siula Grande, a sheer block of a mountain that to the untrained eye, looks completely inaccessible. A nail-biting account of mountaineer Joe Simpson’s terrifying encounter with death in the Peruvian Andes, hundreds of miles from help. Touching the Void is a book I recently read for the first time and was the first book in a while that I read continuously, without putting down. ![]()
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