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Touching the void / by Joe Simpson ; with a foreword by Chris Bonington.
The 25th Anniversary ebook, now with more than 50 images. 'Touching the Void' is the tale of two mountaineer's harrowing ordeal in the Peruvian Andes. In the summer of 1985, two young, headstrong mountaineers set off to conquer an unclimbed route. They had triumphantly reached the summit, when a horrific accident mid-descent forced one friend to leave another for dead. Ambition, morality, fear and camaraderie are explored in this electronic edition of the mountaineering classic, with never before seen colour photographs taken during the trip itself.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780957519305
- ISBN: 0957519303
- Physical Description: 1 online resource : illustrations (some color)
- Edition: 25th Anniversary edition.
- Publisher: [Cork] : DirectAuthors.com Ltd., 2012.
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| Source of Description Note: | Online resource; title from READ title page (OverDrive, viewed February 14, 2017). |
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