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Joe Simpson is the author of several best-selling books, of which the first, Touching the Void, won both the NCR Award and the Boardman Tasker Award. Since its first publication in 1988, Touching the Void has become a classic and an international bestseller, translated into fourteen languages and made into an award-winning feature-length documentary film (winner of the Outstanding British Film of the Year BAFTA 2004). Joe currently lives in Sheffield.
""Simpson has a great way with words and his prose grips... A fascinating tale, wonderfully told"" -- Ranulph Fiennes Sunday Times ""This Game Of Ghosts is a strange, beautiful, bewildering and often very moving book... Simpson paints a warm, vivid picture of the climbing fraternity, and approaches a fusion of poetry and philosophy sometimes with his description of the impact on oneself of facing down the fear of dying; through this coming closer to understanding death, and thereby, joyously life"" The List ""His fame is not due to the incidents themselves so much as the brilliant way he writes about them. The result leaves an impression of total honesty and lets the intense excitement of the stories speak for themselves"" Independent ""This book is not so much about why we climb - Simpson can't answer that for himself, much less the rest of us - but why we take such risks for such fleeting rewards. Overall this is a great book - perhaps the most honest bit of climbing writing I have read"" -- John Sherman Climbing ""This is Simpson's rehabilitation. It is deeply honest, perplexed, confused, has no easy conclusions...This is not so much another climbing book as a psychological document, terrifying, challenging and extraordinary"" Scotsman
High Cols and Deep Canyons
Ordinary Adventures in Extraordinary...
Hardback
$75.95 $64.51
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Dare To Dream
How to Climb Your Own Everest
Paperback
$19.95
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Trail Running Chamonix-Mont Blanc...
30 Must-Do Trail Runs
Paperback
$54.99
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Knots
The Knots You Need and How to Tie...
Paperback
$19.99
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The Ascent of the Matterhorn
INCLUDING THE FORGOTTEN PHOTOGRAPHS...
Paperback
$39.99
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