Joe Simpson

Touching The Void

  • Touching The Void

  • A moving account of two friends’ difficult, terrifying and heartbreaking journey in the Peruvian Andes.

    Touching the Void is the heart-stopping account of Joe Simpson's terrifying adventure in the Peruvian Andes. He and his climbing partner, Simon, reached the summit of the remote Siula Grande in June 1995. A few days later, Simon staggered into Base Camp, exhausted and frost-bitten, with news that that Joe was dead.

    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.


    VINTAGE VOYAGES: A world of journeys, from the tallest mountains to the depths of the mind

Touching The Void
Touching The Void
Joe Simpson
The Sound of Gravity
The Sound of Gravity
Joe Simpson
Annapurna
Annapurna
Maurice Herzog
The Beckoning Silence
The Beckoning Silence
Joe Simpson
Dark Shadows Falling
Dark Shadows Falling
Joe Simpson
Storms of Silence
Storms of Silence
Joe Simpson
This Game Of Ghosts
This Game Of Ghosts
Joe Simpson
Vintage Voyages

Vintage Voyages

10 Books

Joe Simpson is the author of several best-selling books, of which the first,Touching the Void, won both the NCR award and the Boardman Tasker Award. His later books are This Game of Ghosts - the sequel to Touching the Void - Storms of Silence, Dark Shadows Falling, The Beckoning Silence and two novels, The Water People and The Sound of Gravity.

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