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Simon Yates is 'the one who cut the rope' in Joe Simpson's award-winning account of their epic struggle for survival in Touching the Void. Afterwards, Yates continued mountaineering on the hardest routes. Perhaps the most testing of all was one of the world's largest vertical rockfaces, the 4, 000-ft East Face of the Central Tower of Paine in Chile. Battered by ferocious storms and almost crippled with fear just below the summit, Yates and his three companions are forced into a nightmare retreat. After resting in a nearby town, they return to complete the climb, but Yates knows he still has to face one of life's greatest challenges...
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"Elegiac, immensely readable, full of the real excitement of climbing" (M. John Harrison Times Literary Supplement)
"An engaging book, both the story of another great climb and a wistful acknowledgement that nothing, in any area of our lives, is ever quite what it seems" (Sara Wheeler Literary Review)
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"An engaging book, both the story of another great climb and a wistful acknowledgement that nothing, in any area of our lives, is ever quite what it seems" (Sara Wheeler Literary Review)
'Elegiac, immensely readable, full of the real excitement of climbing' M. John Harrison, Times Literary Supplement
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- EditoreVintage
- Data di pubblicazione1998
- ISBN 10 0099766418
- ISBN 13 9780099766414
- RilegaturaCopertina flessibile
- Numero di pagine192
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Descrizione libro Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. 'Elegiac, immensely readable, full of the real excitement of climbing' M. John Harrison, Times Literary SupplementSimon Yates is 'the one who cut the rope' in Joe Simpson's award-winning account of their epic struggle for survival in Touching the Void. Afterwards, Yates continued mountaineering on the hardest routes. Perhaps the most testing of all was one of the world's largest vertical rockfaces, the 4, 000-ft East Face of the Central Tower of Paine in Chile. Battered by ferocious storms and almost crippled with fear just below the summit, Yates and his three companions are forced into a nightmare retreat. After resting in a nearby town, they return to complete the climb, but Yates knows he still has to face one of life's greatest challenges. Simon Yates is the man who cut the rope in Joe Simpson's award- winning account of their struggle for survival in "Touching the Void". In this book, Yates recounts how he and three companions climbed the world's largest vertical rock-face, in the Chilean Andes. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Codice articolo 9780099766414
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Descrizione libro Condizione: New. 1998. New Ed. Paperback. An account of Yeates' ascent of one of the world's largest vertical rock faces, the 4,000 foot Central Tower of Paine in Chile. The greatest difficulties come not from the elements but from within themselves; crippled with fear the team is forced into a retreat but after resting return to complete the climb. Num Pages: 176 pages, illustrations (chiefly colour) maps, portraits (some colour). BIC Classification: 1KLSH; 1KLSX; BM; WSZG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 12. Weight in Grams: 142. . . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland. Codice articolo V9780099766414
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