Touching the Void
ISBN:
9780613998871 (0613998871)
Publisher: Turtleback Books
Edition language: English
Category:
Adventure,
Non Fiction,
Travel,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Biography,
Survival,
Nature,
Sports And Games,
Sports,
Mountaineering,
Outdoors,
Climbing
I just finished touching the void and it was a sick book. I thought it was the best book i've read in a long time. The story was great and was crazy. My Favorite part was when he got out of the crevasse and how much balls that would have taken to go deeper into it. I felt really bad for Simon wh...
Exciting? Yes!This is the quintessential survival story, and it is true!In 1985 Joe Simpson and Simon Yates decide to climb the west face of Siula Grande in the Peruvian Andes. I am no mountaineer, but even I could spot some of their errors. The book focuses on moral issues too.A prime one being tha...
Wow! This book was amazing. Joe Simpson and Simon Yates both went through so much during their climb of the west face of Siula Grande of the Peruvian Andes....seriously, this book is intense! I absolutely loved it. Joe is an amazing storyteller and he manages to lock the reader in a spiral of suspen...
Great story. Two friends goes for an excursion. Unfortunately one of them gets injured, his friend tries to get him down from the mountain but then he's forced to cut his friend off in order to save his own life. The the struggle begins, of both of them. Really good, well written. It is a monument o...