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基本信息·出版社：Vintage Classics
·页码：224 页
·出版日期：2008年11月
·ISBN：0099511746
·条形码：9780099511748
·装帧：平装
·正文语种：英语
·丛书名：Vintage Classics
·外文书名：触及巅峰(小说)(Vintage经典系列)
内容简介 Tackling the unclimbed west face of the remote Siula Grande in the Andes, Joe Simpson and his partner Simon Yates achieved the summit before disaster struck. A few days later, an exhausted Simon staggered into base camp to tell their non-climbing companion that Joe was dead. For three days he wrestled with guilt as they prepared to return home. Then a cry in the night took them out, where they found Joe, badly injured, crawling through the snowstorm. Far from causing Joe’s death, Simon had saved his friend’s life when he was forced into the appalling decision to cut the rope.
作者简介 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 theVoid -, Storms of Silence, Dark Shadows Falling, The Beckoning Silence and a novel, The Water People.
编辑推荐 Amazon.com Review Concise and yet packed with detail,
Touching the Void, Joe Simpson's harrowing account of near-death in the Peruvian Andes, is a compact tour de force that wrestles with issues of bravery, friendship, physical endurance, the code of the mountains, and the will to live. Simpson dedicates the book to his climbing partner, Simon Yates, and to "those friends who have gone to the mountains and have not returned." What is it that compels certain individuals to willingly seek out the most inhospitable climate on earth? To risk their lives in an attempt to leave footprints where few or none have gone before? Simpson's vivid narrative of a dangerous climbing expedition will convince even the most die-hard couch potato that such pursuits fall within the realm of the sane. As the author struggles ever higher, readers learn of the mountain's awesome power, the beautiful--and sometimes deadly--sheets of blue glacial ice, and the accomplishment of a successful ascent. And then catastrophe: the second half of
Touching the Void sees Simpson at his darkest moment. With a smashed, useless leg, he and his partner must struggle down a near-vertical face--and that's only the beginning of their troubles.
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. Review "A truly astounding account of suffering and fortitude."--"The Times (London)"Simpson touches a nerve of the mountaineering community and the hearts of others."--"Los Angeles Times"Told with lyrical quality and stunning immediacy, "Touching the Void transcends its genre and becomes accessible to readers who have never had any desire to climb a glacier."--"New York Newsday"A gripping narrative that should excite armchair adventurers everywhere."--"Cleveland Plain-Dealer
