description: Tackling the unclimbed west face of the remote Siula Grande in the Andes, Joe Simpson and his partner Simon Yates achieved the summit before disaster struck. A few days later, an exhausted Simon staggered into base camp to tell their non-climbing companion that Joe was dead. For three days he wrestled with guilt as they prepared to return home. Then a cry in the night took them out, where they found Joe, badly injured, crawling through the snowstorm. Far from causing Joe’s death, Simon had saved his friend’s life when he was forced into the appalling decision to cut the rope.
title: Touching the Void
titlecomplete: Touching the Void
characters: Joe Simpson & Simon Yates
genres: Biography, Outdoors, Climbing, Adventure, Mountaineering, Memoir, Nonfiction, Sports, Travel, Survival
ratings_count: 58152
awards: awardedAt: 599644800000
name: NCR Book Award, awardedAt: 568022400000
name: Boardman Tasker Prize
category: Mountain Literature
publisher: Random House Audiobooks