Touching the void

By Joe Simpson Joe Simpson

Subjects: Mountaineering accidents, Biography, Search and rescue operations, Survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, etc., Case studies, Mountaineering, Mountaineers, Peru, history

Description: Touching the Void is a 1988 book by Joe Simpson, recounting his and Simon Yates's disastrous and nearly fatal climb of the 6,344-metre (20,813 foot) Siula Grande in the Peruvian Andes in 1985.