Touching the Void
Author(s):
Simpson, Joe
Copyright: 1989, Harper & Row, NY
Specifications: 1st, 8vo, pp.174, 16 color & 7 bw photos, map, map eps, blue/tan cloth
Condition: signed Simpson, dj unclipped, near fine, cloth 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.