by Joe Simpson · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782723445795
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«La mort suspendue» is Joe Simpson's autobiographical account, published by Glénat in paperback (288 pages, in French).
After summiting Siula Grande in the Peruvian Andes, Joe Simpson and Simon Yates begin their descent and suffer an accident: Simpson breaks his leg and, during a storm, Yates cuts the rope linking them to avoid falling with him. Alone, injured and in a crevasse, Simpson embarks on a desperate struggle to return to base camp. A true story of survival and friendship pushed to the limit.
French paperback edition from Glénat (2004, 288 pages). The original English, «Touching the Void», was published in 1988 and won the Boardman Tasker Prize and the NCR Book Award.
For fans of non-fiction literature, mountaineering and true survival stories.
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.
