num_pages: 330
description: A sequel to the award-winning "Touching the Void", in which Simpson described a fall in the Himalayas which crippled and almost broke him. This is a memoir of the signposts that have directed him since childhood to measure fear and embrace the unknown.
language: English
title: This Game of Ghosts
titlecomplete: This Game of Ghosts
genres: Adventure, Memoir, Mountaineering, Biography, Autobiography, Climbing, Outdoors, Biography Memoir, Travel, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 1353
awards: awardedAt: 725875200000
name: Boardman Tasker Prize
category: Mountain Literature
publisher: Mountaineers Books