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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

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"A brilliant, vivd, gripping, heart-stopping account of their terrifying adventure... Superbly written" Sunday Express

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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 one previous novel, The Water People.

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