Against The Wall
$36.22
- Paperback
192 pages
- Release Date
6 March 1998
Summary
‘Elegiac, immensely readable, full of the real excitement of climbing’ - M. John Harrison, Times Literary Supplement
Simon Yates is ‘the one who cut the rope’ in Joe Simpson’s award-winning account of their epic struggle for survival in Touching the Void. Afterwards, Yates continued mountaineering on the hardest routes. Perhaps the most testing of all was one of the world’s largest vertical rockfaces, the 4,000-ft East Face of the Central Tower of Paine in Chile. Battered by ferocious…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099766414 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0099766418 |
| Author: | Simon Yates |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 192 |
| Release Date: | 6 March 1998 |
| Weight: | 144g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 131mm x 14mm |
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Critics Review
Elegiac, immensely readable, full of the real excitement of climbing
Elegiac, immensely readable, full of the real excitement of climbing – M. John Harrison * Times Literary Supplement *
An engaging book, both the story of another great climb and a wistful acknowledgement that nothing, in any area of our lives, is ever quite what it seems – Sara Wheeler * Literary Review *
About The Author
Simon Yates
Simon Yates has climbed extensively in the Himalayas and the Andes, and travelled through India, Kazakhstan and Australia. His first book, Against the Wall, was runner-up for the Boardman Tasker Award for mountain literature.
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