Touching the Void [Kindle Edition] Author: Joe Simpson | Language: English | ISBN:
B00AR0DN3Y | Format: PDF, EPUB
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Posts about Download The Book Touching the Void [Kindle Edition] Free PDF for everyone book 4shared, mediafire, hotfile, and mirror link The 25th Anniversary ebook, now with more than 50 images. 'Touching the Void' is the tale of two mountaineer’s harrowing ordeal in the Peruvian Andes. In the summer of 1985, two young, headstrong mountaineers set off to conquer an unclimbed route. They had triumphantly reached the summit, when a horrific accident mid-descent forced one friend to leave another for dead. Ambition, morality, fear and camaraderie are explored in this electronic edition of the mountaineering classic, with never before seen colour photographs taken during the trip itself.
Included in the ebook and free sample is a link to a ten minute video interview with Joe, discussing the challenges and changes that have come to pass in the 25 years since original publication (Please check if your device is able to stream videos - Internet connection required). Direct download links available for Touching the Void [Kindle Edition] Free PDF
- File Size: 1671 KB
- Print Length: 192 pages
- Publisher: DirectAuthors.com Ltd.; 2 edition (December 12, 2012)
- Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
- Language: English
- ASIN: B00AR0DN3Y
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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- Lending: Enabled
- Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #22,148 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
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- #5
in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Nonfiction > Sports > Mountaineering - #11
in Books > Sports & Outdoors > Mountaineering > Mountain Climbing - #17
in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Biographies & Memoirs > Specific Groups > Adventurers & Explorers
`Touching the Void' is the story of Joe Simpson and Simon Yates who climbed the West Face of Siula Grande, a mountain in the Peruvian Andes. After an accident Simpson has a broken leg and little chance of getting off the mountain alive. Yates lowers Simpson off the mountain quickly (as they do not have enough supplies to stay on the mountain) and unknowingly off a cliff face. Simpson cannot beck up the rope and Yates cannot pull him back up. Seconds before being pulled off the face of the cliff himself Yates cuts the rope and Simpson falls off the cliff and down the mountain. Yates, leaving the mountain the next morning, thinking Simpson dead, leaves Simpson to crawl off the mountain with his injuries.
In the best portions of the book you get both Yates's and Simpson's thoughts about the accident, where they were and what was happening step by step in the days following the accident. You feel the pain, guilt, fear, and panic in both parties and get the idea that something fantastic occurred on Siula Grande.
I say you get the feeling because in the poorer portions of the book you do not understand why one `crevasse' is worse than another, why a `pear shaped cornice' is a bad omen, why it is hard to place a `friend' in a secure position on the mountain, and why a `bollard' is dubious. In Simpson's words one portion of the mountain blends into the other and you have to be told this portion is scary, or that he is making progressing, rather than seeing why he is scared or how he is making progress.
Simpson admits as much in the Epilogue to the book when he says `I simply could not find the words to express the utter desolation of the experience' and to be fair Simpson was not an experienced writer at the time of this book (he has written six since then).
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