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Touching the void / Joe Simpson ; with a foreword by Chris Bonington.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: London : Vintage, 1997.Edition: [New ed.]Description: 207p., [16]p. of plates : ill. (some col.), ports. ; 20 cmISBN:
  • 9780099771012 (pbk.) :
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 796.5220922 21
LOC classification:
  • GV199.9 .S56 1997
Awards:
  • NCR Award for Non-Fiction
  • Boardman Tasker Award.
Summary: Joe Simpson and his partner, Simon Yates, tackled the unclimbed West Face of the remote 21,000 ft Siula Grande in the Peruvian Andes. In June 1985 they achieved the summit before disaster struck. In Touching the Void they tell their story.
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Item type Current library Collection Call number Status Date due Barcode
General The Harden Library, King's Hospital Biography 920 SIM (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available r16210A0499
General The Harden Library, King's Hospital Biography 920 SIM (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available R15954L0499
General The Harden Library, King's Hospital Main 796.52 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available R14757L0499

Previous ed.: London: Jonathan Cape, 1988.

Joe Simpson and his partner, Simon Yates, tackled the unclimbed West Face of the remote 21,000 ft Siula Grande in the Peruvian Andes. In June 1985 they achieved the summit before disaster struck. In Touching the Void they tell their story.

NCR Award for Non-Fiction

Boardman Tasker Award.

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