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Back to the Void

Back to the Void. Touching the Void dramatises the true story of climbers Joe Simpson and Simon Yates, and their treacherous descent down a ...

He wrote the book Touching the Void about his ill-fated climb of Siula Grande mountain in Peru with his climbing partner Simon Yates.

A nail-biting account of mountaineer Joe Simpson's terrifying encounter with death in the Peruvian Andes, hundreds of miles from help. In ...

Joe Simpson. Seattle: The Mountaineers Books, 2003. 315 pages. Paperback. $18.95. Of course Joe Simpson would have to cap off his climbing career with an ...

Climber, author and professional mountain guide Simon Yates, was born in. Leicestershire. He studied Biochemistry at Sheffield University before becoming a ...

Joe Simpson: How I survived my climbing accident

What drives a person to survive when all hope is gone? This climber lived to tell and his harrowing story is still just as powerful 35 years ...

JOE SIMPSON (born 1960) is an English mountaineer, author, and motivational speaker. While climbing in Peru in 1985, he suffered severe injuries and was...

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The book tells the story of Simpson and his climbing partner Simon Yates' ascent of the mountain, and their subsequent descent, during which ...

climbing Siula Grande, Joe Simpson, Touching the Void

Siula-Grande is the second highest mountain in the Cordillera Huayhash range of the Peruvian Andes and the site for Joe Simpson's book 'Touching the Void'.

TIL about Joe Simpson, who broke his leg descending a mountain and was lowered off the mountain by his climbing partner Simon Yates. He ends up ...

But then you agree we should celebrate climbers (forget the JS issue a moment) rather than let some no name tw*t become a climbing identifier in the publics ...

Joe came to a cliff. Hanging off the side, Joe couldn't stand. His only chance was to climb the rope. He tried to tie a climbers knot with frostbitten hands ...

Joe Simpson, one leg badly broken, was dangling helplessly above his doom in the Peruvian Andes, connected to life and his climbing partner ...

'By the end I'd lost me': Joe Simpson, mountaineer and writer

A blizzard blew in, Simpson was lowered over an overhanging ledge, and at that point the rope ran out. Dangling above the yawning maw of a ...

... climber Joe Simpson describes how he and fellow climber Simon Yates scaled a 21000 foot mountain in Peru. On the way down, Joe fell and broke his leg. In ...

In May 1985 two climbers, Joe Simpson and Simon Yates, left their base camp by a lake and started climbing the north face of a mountain called Siula Grande ...

Mountaineer and author, Joe Simpson, has an incredible survival story and his book about his terrifying experiences on the inhospitable Siula Grande has ...

Touching the void by Joe Simpson is a vivid, intense and powerful story of a horrifying adventure in the Peruvian Andes. Two experienced climbers, Joe...

Has Joe Simpson ever explained why he did not cut ...

I am a climber and mountaineer and have a great deal of respect for Simon Yates and his efforts to save Joe Simpson and also for his ...

After a series of calamities, Simpson fell from an ice cliff, breaking his leg. Yates laboriously tried to lower him to safety, successfully ...

Simpson has never married or had children. Has climbing prevented him from forming long-lasting relationships? "It'd be easy to say yes but it's ...

Back to the Brink Almost 20 years after their near-death experience, climbers Joe Simpson and Simon Yates returned to the Peruvian Andes with an ...

Joe Simpson (born 1960) is an English mountaineer, author and motivational speaker. He is best known for his book Touching the Void and the ...