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Touching the Void is a 1988 book by Joe Simpson, recounting his and Simon Yates's disastrous and nearly fatal climb of the 6,344-metre (20,813 foot) Siula Grande in the Peruvian Andes in 1985.
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Earnest, grave, classical in form and intimate.
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- intimateepic
- cooloverwhelming
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About the book
- Author
- Joe Simpson, Joe Simpson
- First published
- 1988
- Pages
- 187
- Publisher
- Vintage, PAN BOOKS, HarperPerennial
- Editions
- 20
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780708922477
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On Open Library, 7 have read it and 117 want to.
“I was lying in my sleeping bag, staring at the light filtering through the red and green fabric of the dome tent.”
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