Touching the Void: The True Story of One Man’s Miraculous Survival
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- ISBN13: 9780060730550
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Product Description
Joe Simpson and his climbing partner, Simon Yates, had just reached the top of a 21,000-foot peak in the Andes when disaster struck. Simpson plunged off the vertical face of an ice ledge, breaking his leg. In the hours that followed, darkness fell and a blizzard raged as Yates tried to lower his friend to safety. Finally, Yates was forced to cut the rope, moments before he would have been pulled to his own death.
The next three days were an intolerably grueling suffering for both men. Yates, certain that Simpson was dead, returned to base camp consumed with grief and guilt over abandoning him. Miraculously, Simpson had survived the fall, but crippled, starving, and severely frostbitten was trapped in a deep crevasse. Summoning vast reserves of physical and spiritual might, Simpson crawled over the cliffs and canyons of the Andes, reaching base camp hours before Yates had plotted to place.
How both men overcame the torments of persons upsetting days is an epic tale of dread, suffering, and survival, and a poignant tribute to unshakable courage and friendship.
Amazon.com Review
Concise and yet packed with detail, Touching the Void, Joe Simpson’s upsetting account of near-death in the Peruvian Andes, is a compact tour de force that wrestles with issues of bravery, friendship, physical endurance, the code of the mountains, and the will to live. Simpson dedicates the book to his climbing partner, Simon Yates, and to “persons friends who have gone to the mountains and have not returned.” What is it that compels certain individuals to willingly seek out the most inhospitable climate on planet? To risk their lives in an attempt to place footprints where few or none have gone before? Simpson’s plain narrative of a treacherous climbing expedition will convince even the most die-hard couch potato that such pursuits fall within the realm of the sane. As the leader struggles ever privileged, readers learn of the mountain’s awesome power, the gorgeous–and sometimes deadly–sheets of blue glacial ice, and the accomplishment of a successful incline. And then catastrophe: the second half of Touching the Void sees Simpson at his darkest moment. With a smashed, useless leg, he and his partner must struggle down a near-vertical face–and that’s only the beginning of their troubles.
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This is a very dull book. I thought it would be an action packed survival book, but it place me to sleep.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
This book has been lauded as inspirational and life changing, but trying to wade through the technical mountaineering jargon is a chore and at its core this is a simple tale about a thrill seeker who had a terrible fall but wound up no worse for the wear. Joe was out climbing before long after this incident that supposedly changed his life. How terrible could it have really been? An excruciating read.
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
The problem with this book is it pales in comparison to many additional adventure/survival tales, most notably another mountaineering debaucle “Into Thin Air.” I’m sure if you are a climber the technical detail (ad nauseum) is riveting. If you read these tales for inspiration and to attain some insight into the thrill-seeker mind, it will be a tough 218 pages to get through.
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
I bought this book based on the tale of Joe Simpson and tried so hard to like it, but I just couldn’t. It had to be one of the most dull books I’ve read in a long time…No, right that, I couldn’t even end it because it was so dull. I lasted about 80 pages and skimmed the additional 20 and just wanted the book to end….
The book ongoing out okay but once the two ongoing climbing it became extremely repetitive….I just wanted the book to end…It was so damn dull! Fantastic tale (hence two stars and not one) but terribly written.
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
Mountaineers who nearly die – who cares! Why did they climb the mountain in the first place…to have an appealing anecdote to bore their friends with.
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5