The Harrowing First Person Account of One Man's Miraculous Survival.
One of mountaineering’s most famous stories, this book tells of Joe Simpson and Simon Yates’ climb of Siula Grande, in the Cordillera Huayhuash of Peru. Simpson broke his leg on the descent and had to be lowered down the mountain by Yates. Amid a storm and mishap, Yates was forced to cut the rope, sending Simpson to his presumed doom. But Simpson survived the fall, landed in a deep crevasse, and eventually crawled out and self-rescued back to camp. Touching the Void is one of the most amazing stories of human drive to survive. This book was made into a pretty good movie!
174 pages, text with 21 photographs in two inserts - a mix of color and black-and-white. This is the first US Edition, first printing. Hardcover in excellent condition with dust-jacket in vinyl, not price-clipped.
