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'Touching the Void': Would you cut the rope to survive? | U.S.

Joe Simpson, the elder climber, was 25 years old, and his partner Simon Yates was just 22. With more courage than hands-on experience, the two ...

Nine years later, when climbing on the Eiger in 2000, he was caught in a storm and heard two climbers plummet to their deaths close by. This ...

But it made me think that if someone's prepared to go through that, there must be something fantastic about climbing. How do you relax? I like ...

... climbers are still tied together, and as the rope threatens to pull Simon off the mountain he is faced with a moral dilemma that every climber dreads: let ...

The making of the film 'Touching the void', the docudrama that tells the survival story of Joe Simpson in the Siula Grande. Made by Oscar-winning director Kevin ...

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'A truly astounding account of suffering and fortitude.' The Times LondonJoe Simpson and his climbing partner, Simon Yates, had just reached the top of a.

In May 1985 two climbers, Joe Simpson and Simon Yates, left their base camp by a lake and started climbing the north face of a mountain called Siula Grande ...

A nail-biting account of mountaineer Joe Simpson's terrifying encounter with death in the Peruvian Andes, hundreds of miles from help. In ...

Suspended on the edge of a ridge, Simpson was miraculously alive. He pulled the rope assuming Yates was still attached and had gone over the ...

In 1992, an Indian climber was left to die on the South Col of Mount Everest by other climbers who watched his feebly waving hand from their tent.

How We Met: Joe Simpson and Simon Yates

Climber, author and professional mountain guide Simon Yates, was born in. Leicestershire. He studied Biochemistry at Sheffield University before becoming a ...

As they climbed down, Simpson (pictured) fell and shattered his right leg. The injuries were so horrific that in his public talks he has seen ...

Joe Simpson, 51, is best known for writing Touching the Void, his account of a near-fatal climbing accident in the Andes in 1985.

Simpson broke his leg on the ill-fated descent of the 6300 metre high peak Siula Grande. It was the kind of accident which condemns climbers to ...

In The Beckoning Silence, Joe Simpson - whose amazing battle for survival featured in the multi-award winning Touching the Void - travels to the treacherous ...

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Joe Simpson is a British mountaineer, author, and motivational speaker. While climbing in Peru in 1985, he suffered severe injuries and was assumed dead by ...

In 1985 mountaineer Joe Simpson had just summited a 21,000 foot peak in the Andes with a climbing partner. Then, the unimaginable happened. A fall left Simpson ...

Joe Simpson (born 1960) is a British mountaineer, author, and motivational speaker. While climbing in Peru in 1985, he suffered severe injuries and was ...

Joe Simpson, one leg badly broken, was dangling helplessly above his doom in the Peruvian Andes, connected to life and his climbing partner ...

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Mountaineer and author, Joe Simpson, has an incredible survival story and his book about his terrifying experiences on the inhospitable Siula Grande has ...

This is truly an astounding account of suffering and fortitude brought about when disaster struck after Joe Simpson and his climbing partner, Simon Yates, had ...

A blizzard blew in, Simpson was lowered over an overhanging ledge, and at that point the rope ran out. Dangling above the yawning maw of a ...

In Touching the Void: The True Story of One Man's Miraculous Survival, English climber ... In the summer of 1985, Joe Simpson and his climbing partner, Simon ...

Joe Simpson, a compact Englishman in black with close-cropped hair ... There the crippled climber dangled for an hour, unable to communicate ...