Storms of Silence

Excellent…Simpson is a born writer * The Times *‘To mix a metaphor, Joe Simpson is a streetwise mountaineer…He takes you close to the nitty-gritty, the nuts and bolts of professional climbing in the 1990’s. He is used to dealing with totalitarian policemen. He is passionate and moving on the subject of Tibet and the agonies inflicted on it by the cruel Chinese occupation…Above all, Simpson is a born writer’ – Paul Johnson * The Times *‘The book’s major theme is the nature of aggression. A skinhead in a Sheffield bar sets the reader up for the genocide that is modern Tibetan history…What makes Joe Simpson stand out is his belief that there is more to life than a crampon, and his dogged refusal to leave the highest mental peaks unclimbed’ – Sara Wheeler * Daily Telegraph *‘THis immensely accessible book offers a unique re-interpretation of masculinity…In doing so, it offers a ray of hope to an increasingly bleak and vicious society’ – Martin Booth * Independent *

Joe Simpson is the author of several best-selling books, of which the first, Touching the Void, won both the NCR Award and the Boardman Tasker Award. Touching the Void has become a classic and an international bestseller, translated into fourteen languages and made into an award-winning feature-length documentary film (winner of the Outstanding British Film of the Year BAFTA 2004). Joe currently lives in Sheffield.