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Touching the Void
- Narrated by: Andrew Wincott, Daniel Weyman
- Length: 6 hrs and 52 mins
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Touching the Void
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Publisher's Summary
Joe Simpson, with just his partner, Simon Yates, tackled the unclimbed West Face of the remote 21,000-foot Siula Grande in the Peruvian Andes in June of 1985. But before they reached the summit, disaster struck.
A few days later, Simon staggered into Base Camp, exhausted and frostbitten, to tell their non-climbing companion that Joe was dead. For three days he wrestled with guilt as they prepared to return home. Then a cry in the night took them out with torches, where they found Joe, badly injured, crawling through the snowstorm in a delirium.
Far from causing Joe's death, Simon had paradoxically saved his friend's life. What happened, and how they dealt with the psychological traumas that resulted when Simon was forced into the appalling decision to cut the rope, makes not only an epic of survival but a compelling testament of friendship.
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- Walker
- 24-03-2019
A really slow start
I actually gave up on this book for a while. It seemed to go now where. Though, without giving anything away, there is a critically point where that all changes. From then on I was almost hanging on every word.
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- Sophia
- 26-06-2023
Excellent
An incredible recounting.
Astounding that one can endure such events, that the will to survive can triumph against such odds.
Had me hooked at every moment and offered powerful life lessons throughout.
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- Liss and Pen
- 23-02-2021
Harrowing and Amazing
An amazing story! The fight for survival and reflection on the psychological strain both men were under throughout their ordeal is equally gripping and heart rending.
My only problem was for someone who doesn't know what different pieces of climbing kit are for, or what different rock/ice formations look like and feature, certain aspects were hard to imagine.
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- Thomas
- 23-02-2021
Great tale of survival against the odds
Very entertaining survival story. Well read and well performed. Makes me want to watch the documentary again.
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- Kindle Customer
- 28-02-2021
touching the void. just incredible
amazing story from start to finish. highly recommend. overcoming ridiculous odds in order to survive is incredible
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- tom
- 23-08-2017
true stories are often the best stories
i would listen to it for no reason other than it's true, but there definitely are more reasons than that. a captivating story of survival.
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- Matthew
- 26-06-2017
Harrowing
A small taste of what it might be like to slowly die, alone and cold on the side a mountain
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- Anonymous User
- 19-08-2021
Best yet
I had seen the documentary years ago but never brought myself to read the book. This audiobook is by far the most gripping story I have listened to so far
I struggled to stop listening
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- Corey Hanson
- 11-03-2021
Captivating read
It’s amazing what the human spirit will do to survive! Bugger being a mountaineer though!!
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- Shaun
- 07-04-2022
astounding!
This book takes awhile to get into if your not normally an 'outdoorsy' kind of person, but then the intensity comes.
I don't want to spoil it, the story had my family looking at each other open mouthed and in silence for the long car trip we had this playing. No one wanted to speak to interrupt the fact we were all conpletely reliving this story in our minds eye.
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