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090617s1997 ||||||||||||||||||||eng|u |
| INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9780099511748 |
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20170126095041.0 |
| CONTROL NUMBER |
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31684 |
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| TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Touching the void / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc |
Joe Simpson ; with a foreword by Chris Bonington. |
| PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
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| Place of publication, distribution, etc |
London : |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc |
Vintage Books, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc |
1997. |
| PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
216p.,[16]p. of plates : |
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ill. (some col.), ports. (some col ; |
| Dimensions |
20 cm. |
| SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc |
Joe Simpson with just his partner, Simon Yates tackled the unclimbed West Face of the remote 21, 000 ft SIULA GRANDE in the Peruvian Andes. In June 1995 they achieved the summit before disaster struck. A few days later, Simon staggered into Base Camp, exhausted and frost-bitten, 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 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. |
| SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Simpson, Joe, 1960- |
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| Personal name |
Yates, Simon. |
| SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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Mountaineering |
| Geographic subdivision |
Peru |
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Huayhuash. |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Mountaineering accidents |
| Geographic subdivision |
Peru |
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Huayhuash. |
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REGULAR |