Touching the Void
Author(s):
Simpson, Joe
Copyright: 1988, Harper & Row, NY
Specifications: 1st, 8vo, pp.174, 16 color & 7 bw photos, map, map eps, blue/tan cloth
Condition: signed Simon Yates, dj unclipped, fine, cloth w/ 2 pen marks to bottom edge, else tight, fine
An amazing story of survival on Siula Grande (20,848') in the Peruvian Andes in 1985. Winner of the 1988 Boardman/Tasker Mountaineering Literature Award and published in 13 languages. Selected by Outside Magazine as one of the best 25 adventure books of the past 100 years. Bonington wrote the foreward. This copy is signed by Simpson’s expedition partner Simon Yates to whom the book is dedicated.