num_pages: 192
description: This book is an illustrated account of the ascent of the west face of the 21,000ft peak, Siula Grande, in the Peruvian Andes. The author and his climbing partner, Simon Yates, achieved the summit in June 1985 before disaster struck. A few days later, Yates staggered into base camp, exhausted and frostbitten, to tell their non-climbing companion that Joe was dead.
language: English
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: 58148
awards: awardedAt: 599644800000
name: NCR Book Award, awardedAt: 568022400000
name: Boardman Tasker Prize
category: Mountain Literature
publisher: THE FOLIO SOCIETY