Touching The Void Audiobook (Free)

Joe Simpson, with just his partner Simon Yates, tackled the unclimbed Western world Face from the remote 21,000 feet Siula Grande in the Peruvian Andes in June 1995. But before they reached the summit, catastrophe struck. A couple of days afterwards, Simon staggered into Bottom Camp, exhausted and frostbitten, to inform their non-climbing partner that Joe was deceased. For three times he wrestled with guilt as they prepared to return home. Then a cry in the night had taken them out with torches, where they discovered Joe, badly hurt, crawling through the snowstorm inside a delirium. Definately not causing Joe’s death, Simon acquired paradoxically kept his friend’s lifestyle. What happened, and exactly how they dealt with the mental traumas that resulted when Simon was forced into the appalling decision to slice the rope, makes not only an epic of success but a convincing testament of friendship.