Title: Touching the void
Description: Touching the Void is a 1988 book by Joe Simpson, recounting his and Simon Yates's disastrous and nearly fatal climb of the 6,344-metre (20,813 foot) Siula Grande in the Peruvian Andes in 1985.
Subjects: Mountaineering, Mountaineers, Case studies, Search and rescue operations, Biography, Mountaineering accidents, Survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, etc., Peru, history
Places: Cordillera Huayhuash, Great Britain, Peru
People: Joe Simpson, Simon Yates