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Touching the Void

Auteur(s): Joe Simpson
Narrateur(s): Andrew Wincott, Daniel Weyman
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Joe Simpson, with just his partner, Simon Yates, tackled the unclimbed West Face of the remote 21,000-foot Siula Grande in the Peruvian Andes in June of 1985. But before they reached the summit, disaster struck.

A few days later, Simon staggered into Base Camp, exhausted and frostbitten, to tell their non-climbing companion that Joe was dead. For three days he wrestled with guilt as they prepared to return home. Then a cry in the night took them out with torches, where they found Joe, badly injured, crawling through the snowstorm in a delirium.

Far from causing Joe's death, Simon had paradoxically saved his friend's life. What happened, and how they 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.

©1988 Joe Simpson (P)2012 Random House Audiobooks Essais et carnets de voyage Plein air et nature Sportifs Voyage et aventure Ouvrages généraux Aventure
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An exquisite exemplar of life's perennial and perplexing wonder: the individual's part in the to and fro tussle between the lover and the beloved.

Riveting

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An absolutely amazing recount of alpine survival. it was riviting. great performance and superbly written.

gripping

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I think this is a very well written account of what happened and I couldn't stop listening to it.

Amazing, wish I knew more.

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I read this several times years ago, and I thought I would give it a listen. Even though I knew the outcome, my heart still raced, and I cried.
I found Simon’s narrator a little cold for who I think Simon is, but otherwise a heroic story.

Epic Survival Story

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I was looking for a non-fiction book that focused on the outdoors and stories of adventure and survival. This certainly delivered that and more. Highly recommend!

Incredible story, narrated beautifully

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I couldn’t follow some of the technical descriptions of the climbing/descending process, or some of the descriptions of locations on the mountain, so I had to overlook them which I felt took away from the story. I am very happy for both climbers that they dug up the mental and physical strength to get out of their predicaments rather than give up and die when so close to death. Incredible.

I’m not a climber

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