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By: Joe Simpson

ISBN: 9780099511748
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2008
UK Publication Date: 2nd October 2008
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Touching the Void is the heart-stopping account of Joe Simpson's terrifying adventure in the Peruvian Andes.


(Paperback)

By: Joe Simpson

ISBN: 9780099756118
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 1998
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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In 1992, an Indian climber was left to die on the South Col of Mount Everest by other climbers who watched his feebly waving hand from their tent.


(Paperback)

By: Joe Simpson

ISBN: 9780099466642
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2012
UK Publication Date: 5th July 2012
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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As her hand slips from his grip, Patrick's life is shattered, forever changed...

Trapped high on a high mountain face during the worst storm in living memory, a young man is forced to fight the brutal winter for his life - moments after his beloved wife is swept away forever across the ice.


(Paperback)

By: Joe Simpson

ISBN: 9780099578116
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 1997
UK Publication Date: 6th February 1997
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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In Storms of Silence Joe Simpson recalls the severe snowstorm which put an end to an attempt with four others on Gangchempo and the infection which forced him to abandon the climb on Cho Oyu in tibet. He becomes obsessed with stories of Chinese brutality in the old world Tibet they overran by force 40 years ago.


(Paperback)

By: Joe Simpson

ISBN: 9780099422433
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2003
UK Publication Date: 2nd January 2003
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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In a narrative which takes the reader through extreme experiences, from an avalanche in Bolivia, ice-climbing in the Alps and Colorado and paragliding in Spain - before his final confrontation with the Eiger - Simpson reveals the inner truth of climbing, exploring both the power of the mind and the frailties of the body.


(Paperback)

By: Joe Simpson

ISBN: 9780099380115
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 1994
UK Publication Date: 25th August 1994
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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When Simon Yates cut the rope and sent his friend plummeting to an ordeal few mountaineers can have contemplated, the outcome was totally unpredictable.

This extraordinary memoir is Joe Simpson's attempt to find catharsis and some explanation for the urge he felt since childhood to measure fear and embrace the unknown.


(Paperback)

By: Joe Simpson

ISBN: 9780099771012
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 1998
UK Publication Date: 1st January 1998
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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What happened to Joe, and how the pair dealt with the psychological traumas that resulted when Simon was forced into the appalling decision to cut the rope, makes not only an epic of survival but a compelling testament of friendship.