by Joe Simpson · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788495760722
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«La vertiente oscura» is Joe Simpson's mountaineering essay, published by Desnivel in paperback (238 pages, in Spanish).
In 1992, on the South Col of Everest, climbers witnessed the solitary agony of an alpinist signaling to them thirty meters away and did not go to his aid. Joe Simpson draws on this real event to examine the ethics of mountaineering, responsibility among climbers, and the extreme decisions taken at high altitude.
Originally published as Dark Shadows Falling in 1997, it was nominated for the Boardman Tasker Prize for mountain literature; this Spanish edition dates from March 25, 2002.
For fans of mountain literature and readers already familiar with Joe Simpson through Touching the Void.
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.
