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Joe Simpson (born 13 August 1960) is a British mountaineer, author, and motivational speaker. While climbing in Peru in 1985, he suffered severe injuries and was assumed dead by his climbing companion Simon Yates after falling into a crevasse, but he survived and managed to crawl back to his base camp.
Oct 13, 2021 · Joe Simpson, the elder climber, was 25 years old, and his partner Simon Yates was just 22. With more courage than hands-on experience, the two made a first ascent of the West Face of Siula...
Joe Simpson recounts one of mountaineering's greatest survival stories. What drives a person to survive when all hope is gone? This climber lived to tell and his harrowing story is still...
Joe Simpson recounts one of mountaineering's greatest survival stories. What drives a person to survive when all hope is gone? This climber lived to tell and his harrowing story is still...
Feb 23, 1997 · Joe Simpson I met Simon 12 years ago in Chamonix in the French Alps. A bunch of us were out there climbing. Even though I liked him straight away, I didn't decide to specifically climb with...
Sep 1, 2003 · Joe and Pete set off from advance base camp, at 21,000 feet, on the morning of May 15. Monitored via telescope by expedition leader Chris Bonington and base camp manager Adrian Gordon, they ...
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Nov 16, 2019 · The next morning Yates trudged back to base camp, believing Simpson was dead. He wasn’t. How he survived is a story that insists on being told and retold, first in the bestseller Touching the Void, followed by countless lectures and talks all over the world, then in the documentary film of 2003.
