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  • Touching the Void

    de Joe Simpson ...
    The 25th Anniversary ebook, now with more than 50 images. 'Touching the Void' is the tale of two mountaineer’s harrowing ordeal in the Peruvian Andes. In the summer of 1985, two young, headstrong mountaineers set off to conquer an unclimbed route. They had triumphantly reached the summit, when a horrific accident mid-descent forced one friend to leave another for dead. Ambition, morality, fear and ... Leer más

    $9.95 USD

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • The Beckoning Silence

    de Joe Simpson ...
    Joe Simpson has experienced a life filled with adventure but marred by death. He has endured the painful attrition of climbing friends in accidents, calling into question the perilously exhilarating activity to which he has devoted his life. Probability is inexorably closing in. The tragic loss of a close friend forces a momentous decision upon him. It is time to turn his back on the mountains ... Leer más

    $6.86 USD

  • High Risk

    Climbing to extinction

    de Brian Hall ...
    Winner Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain LiteratureWinner Kekoo Naoroji Award for Himalayan LiteratureWinner Mountain & Adventure Narrative Award, New Zealand Mountain Film & Book FestivalThe golden age of Himalayan mountaineering, from the mid-1970s to the 1980s, brought forth a generation of radical young climbers. With tiny budgets and high ambitions they pioneered fast and light, alpine-style ... Leer más

    $10.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • This Game of Ghosts

    de Joe Simpson ...
    When Simon Yates cut the rope and sent his friend plummeting to an ordeal few mountaineers can have contemplated, the outcome was totally unpredictable. That Joe Simpson survived is a revelation of the power of the human spirit to overcome fear, pain and deprivation of almost unimaginable intensity. He did not expect to live it all over again - more than once. The first test was to write his ... Leer más

    $7.13 USD

  • Storms of Silence

    de Joe Simpson ...
    In Storms of Silence, Joe Simpson recalls the severe snowstorm which put an end to an attempt with four others on Gangchempo and the infection which forced him to abandon the climb on Cho Oyu in tibet. During that expedition he has a disturbing encounter with a party of political refugees and a 4-year-old boy fleeing across the Tibetan border. He becomes obsessed with stories of Chinese brutality ... Leer más

    $6.69 USD

  • La morte sospesa

    de Joe Simpson ...
    Nel giugno 1985, due alpinisti britannici, il venticinquenne Joe Simpson e il suo compagno di cordata, Simon Yates, hanno appena raggiunto la vetta del Siula Grande (6536 metri) nelle Ande peruviane, salendo per la prima volta la parete Ovest. Colti, sulla cima, da una violenta bufera, i due scendono lungo una ripida parete innevata, ma Simpson perde un appoggio e precipita su una roccia ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • Questo gioco di fantasmi

    de Joe Simpson ...
    Traducido por Paola Mazzarelli ...
    Il seguito de La morte sospesa«Uno dei più grandi alpinisti e scrittori di montagna inglesi.» The IndependentCome si può dare un senso alle proprie drammatiche esperienze? E come darne alle tragedie di tanti, troppi, compagni di scalata?Dopo aver raccontato la sua incredibile caduta in un crepaccio sulle Ande (il suo compagno di cordata tagliò la corda, abbandonandolo al suo destino... ... Leer más

    $16.99 USD

  • Summit Fever

    de Andrew Greig ...
    A "wonderful" memoir about mountain climbing—and the risk, joy, and adventure of being alive (Chris Bonington).Shortlisted for the Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain LiteratureWhen poet Andrew Greig was asked by Scottish mountaineer Mal Duff to join his ascent of the Mustagh Tower in the Karakoram Himalayas, he had a poor head for heights and no climbing experience whatsoever. The result is this ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Il richiamo del silenzio

    de Joe Simpson ...
    DALL'AUTORE DI «LA MORTE SOSPESA», UN LIBRO SULLA MONTAGNA SIMBOLO DEL RISCHIO ESTREMO: L'EIGER. Joe Simpson ha vissuto una vita all’insegna dell’avventura e caratterizzata dalla presenza incombente della morte. Ha sofferto la perdita di compagni di cordata, è stato lui stesso vittima di un gravissimo incidente nelle Ande peruviane, e ha continuato a riflettere sulla natura di questa passione ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

  • Il suono del silenzio

    de Joe Simpson ...
    «Trattenne il respiro mentre lei se ne andava, scomparendo con una rapidità che lo colse di sorpresa. Si riscosse dal suo torpore con un senso di gelo. Lei era semplicemente scivolata lontano, fuggita dalla vita, caduta silenziosa nell'aria fredda, precipitata nel buio?»Quando la mano di lei sfuggì alla sua presa, Patrick capì che niente sarebbe stato più come prima. Intrappolato in parete durante ... Leer más

    $7.99 USD

  • Audiolibro

    Touching The Void

    de Joe Simpson ...
    Narrado por Daniel Weyman, Andrew Wincott ...

    Completo

    6 hora 52 minutos

    Joe Simpson, with just his partner Simon Yates, tackled the unclimbed West Face of the remote 21,000 foot Siula Grande in the Peruvian Andes in June 1995. But before they reached the summit, 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 ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

    Disponible también en: eBook

    Disponible también en: eBook

  • Joe Simpson - Aventures en paroi

    la compilation

    de Joe Simpson ...
    La Mort suspendue (1990), Encordé avec des ombres (1994) et Eiger, la dernière course à l’Eiger (2003) : les trois récits majeurs de Joe Simpson, introduits par un texte inédit, sont réunis dans une compilation qui présente le meilleur de l’aventure en montagne.La Mort suspendue, paru en 1989, est le livre de montagne le plus marquant des deux dernières générations. Paru en vingt-trois langues, ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD