Touching the Void – ‘A Brilliant, Vivid and Heart-stopping account of their terrifying adventure’

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The book behind the 2003 BAFTA award-winning, survival documentary and also, Winner of both the NCR Award for non-fiction and the Boardman Tasker award.

“Touching the Void”, is the heart-stopping account of Joe Simpson’s terrifying adventure in the Peruvian Andes.
He and his climbing partner, Simon Yates, were the first to reach the the summit of the remote Siula Grande in June 1985. A few days later, Simon had staggered into Base Camp, exhausted and frost-bitten, with news that that Joe had fallen, shattered his leg and he had needed to leave him.

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.