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Simpson, Joe.
Touching the Void :
The True Story Of One Man's Miraculous Survival /
Joe Simpson ; with a foreword by Chris Bonington.
1st Perennial edition.
[New York :
Perennial,
2004.
218 p :
ill. (some col.), map ; softcover ;
20 cm.
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Originally published: London : J. Cape, 1988.
Foreword by Chris Bonington -- Beneath the mountain lakes -- Tempting fate -- Storm at the summit -- On the edge -- Disaster -- Final choice -- Shadows in the ice -- Silent witness -- In the far distance -- Mind games -- Land without pity -- Time running out -- Tears in the night.
The author relates his nearly fatal adventures mountaineering in the Andes, adventures that included a fall into a crevice, broken limbs, and return to safety.
20160225.
Simpson, Joe
1960-
Simpson, Joe.
Yates, Simon.
Mountaineers
Great Britain
Biography.
Mountaineers.
Mountaineering
Peru
Huayhuash, Cordillera.
Mountaineering
Search and rescue operations
Peru
Huayhuash, Cordillera.
Mountaineering.
Mountaineering.
Search and rescue operations.
Climbing.
Peru
Cordillera Huayhuash.
Biography.
Great Britain.