by Joe Simpson · Tapa dura · ISBN 9780898865493
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«Dark Shadows Falling» is Joe Simpson's mountaineering account, published by Mountaineers Books in hardcover (208 pages, in English).
The author, survivor of an accident on Siula Grande, reflects on mountaineering ethics through the case of an Indian climber abandoned on the South Col of Everest. He analyzes the commercialization of the mountain, the 1996 events on Everest and the role of the media in climbing.
Published in 1997, it was a finalist for the Boardman Tasker Prize for mountain literature. Joe Simpson is also the author of «Touching the Void».
A work for readers interested in mountaineering, sports ethics and adventure nonfiction.
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 his climbing companion Simon Yates after falling into a crevasse, but he survived and managed to crawl back to his base camp. He described the ordeal in his 1988 book Touching the Void, which has been adapted into a 2003 documentary film and a 2018 stage play, both of the same name.
