TOUCHING THE VOID : The Harrowing First Person Account of One Man's Miraculous Survival

Descripción

Text/BRAND NEW, softcover w/a whisper of shelfwear to upper back corner tip. Memoir of English mountaineer Joe Simpson's (1960 -) successful but disastrous 1985 ascent of Siula Grande in the Peruvian Andes. The book is dedicated to his climbing partner Simon Yates (1963 -) who did not survive the descent from the summit. This epic account of both triumph & suffering, friendship & loss of, won the 1988 Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature and was adapted to film.

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Detalles bibliográficos

Título

TOUCHING THE VOID : The Harrowing First Person Account of One Man's Miraculous Survival

Editor

Perrenial/Harper & Row, New York, NY

Fecha de publicación

1990

Idioma

Inglés

ISBN 10

0060916540

ISBN 13

9780060916541

Encuadernación

Soft cover

Ilustrador

Joe Simpson; Simon Yates; & Richard Hawking (Photographers)

Edición

First Edition, First Printing

Estado

New

Estado de la sobrecubierta

None as Issued

Catálogos de vendedores

• Adventure/Expeditions
• Tzqx
• Biography/Autobiography/Memoir

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