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Joe Simpson (born 13 August 1960) is a mountaineer and author. He was made famous by his book Touching the Void (winner of the 1988 Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature and subsequently made into a movie) in which he described a successful but disastrous and near-fatal attempt by himself and Simon Yates to climb Siula Grande in the Peruvian Andes in 1985. Has also survived many other major accidents, notably breaking his other leg in the Himalaya while climbing with Mal Duff. His later non-fiction books describe other expeditions including an attempt on the North Face of the Eiger, and his changing feeling towards extreme mountaineering brought on by the many deaths that surround the pursuit.
Bibliography
- Touching the Void ISBN 0099452294
- Dark Shadows Falling ISBN 0099756110
- Storms of Silence ISBN 0099578115
- This Game of Ghosts ISBN 0099380110
- The Beckoning Silence ISBN 0099422433
- The Water People (fiction) ISBN 0349103496
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1960 births | Living people | English mountain climbers | Sheffielders
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