![]() ![]() ![]() Start a free 30-day trial today and get your first. To date all his books have been short-listed for the Boardman Tasker Prize. Listen to Touching The Void by Joe Simpson available from Rakuten Kobo. A very good book without inscriptions (some spotting to the page edges) in like unclipped wrapper. ![]() Joe has written many books since ‘Touching the Void‘, including two novels. A first edition, first printing published by Cape in 1988. The Evening Standard named it Best Film of the Year 2004, and it is now officially the most successful documentary in British cinema history. The drama documentary film of ‘ Touching the Void’ won the 2004 Baftas Outstanding British Film of the Year, beating Cold Mountain, Love Actually and Girl with a Pearl Earring. It is about agony, terror, courage and weakness, but most of all it is about triumph of the human spirit and the innate strength we have within us to succeed. It is a tale of two men thrown into a nightmare of terrifying life and death choices and heartbreaking decisions. It has sold over two million copies worldwide and has become one of the all time classics of mountaineering. His book, “Touching the Void” (1998), tells of his amazing survival, having shattered his leg and been left for dead in a crevasse high in the Andes. ![]() Joe Simpson is one of the world’s most respected mountaineers and a leading motivational speaker. ![]()
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