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Bookmark or Share- Joe Simpson: ‘Touching the Void’: Would you cut the rope to survive ...Joe Simpson, the elder climber, was 25 years old, and his partner Simon Yates was just 22. With more courage than hands-on experience, the two made a first ascent of the West Face of Siula...
- Back to the Brink Almost 20 years after their near-death experience ...When Joe Simpson and Simon Yates set out in June 1985 to scale Siula Grande, a 20,853-foot mountain in the Peruvian Andes, they knew that all previous attempts to reach the summit had failed. But...
- Touching the Void (book) - WikipediaTouching the Void is a 1988 book by Joe Simpson, recounting his and Simon Yates's near fatal descent after climbing the 6,344-metre (20,814 ft) peak Siula Grande in the Peruvian Andes. Approximately 15% of the book is written by Yates.
- Joe Simpson (mountaineer) - WikipediaJoe Simpson (born 13 August 1960) is a British mountaineer, author, and motivational speaker. While climbing in Peru in 1985, he suffered severe injuries and was assumed dead by his climbing companion Simon Yates after falling into a crevasse, but he survived and managed to crawl back to his base camp.
- 'By the end I’d lost me': Joe Simpson, mountaineer and writer - interviewJoe Simpson: the rime of the ancient mountaineer? In Peru in 1985, Joe Simpson - then 25 - and his 21-year-old climbing partner Simon Yates were descending the remote Siula Grande, which was hard to get up but even harder to get down, when Simpson broke his leg.
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