Touching The Void

A brilliant, vivd, gripping, heart-stopping account of their terrifying adventure… Superbly written * Sunday Express *One of the absolute classics of mountaineering…a document of psychological, even philosophical witness of the rarest compulsion – George Steiner * Sunday Times *On every level it is an outstanding literary achievement * Independent *A quite extraordinary and moving book…Touching the Void touches the Great Questions in an understated yet utterly compelling way * Guardian *A truly astonishing account of suffering and fortitude…the narrative acquires an irresistible force, carrying all before it * Sunday Times *A brilliant, vivid, gripping, heart-stopping account of their terrifying adventure… Superbly written * Sunday Express *One of the absolute classics of mountaineering…a document of psychological, even philosophical witness of the rarest compulsion’ – George Steiner * Sunday Times *

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. His later books are This Game of Ghosts - the sequel to Touching the Void - Storms of Silence, Dark Shadows Falling, The Beckoning Silence and two novels, The Water People and The Sound of Gravity.