Joe Simpson was well equiped to tackle the unclimbed West Face of the remote 21, 000 ft Siula Grande in the Peruvian Andes with just his partner, Simon Yates. In June 1985 they achieved the summit before disaster struck. A few days later, Simon staggered into Base Camp, exhausted and frostbitten, 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 with torches, where they found Joe badly injured, crawling through the snowstorm in a delirium. Far fromcausing Joe's death, Simon had paradoxically saved his friend's life.
- ISBN10 1856860930
- ISBN13 9781856860932
- Publish Date 6 May 2004
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 10 August 2021
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Cornerstone
- Imprint Random House Audiobooks
- Format Audiobook (CD)
- Pages 180
- Language English