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Dark Shadows Falling by Joe Simpson
$39.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: good
In 1992, a climber was left to die by other climbers on Mount Everest, which horrified Joe Simpson who was himself left for dead in Peru in 1985. In this book Simpson explores anecdotally and in heated debates with his climbing companions on Pumori, the moral climate of mountaineering in the 1990s.
Sound of Gravity by Joe Simpson
$39.99 AUD
Category: General
As her hand slips from his grip, Patrick's life is shattered, forever changed...Trapped high on a stormbound mountain face in the icy depths of winter, a stricken young man is forced to fight for his life. Many years later, haunted by grief and guilt, Patrick is freed from his self-imposed vigil when at ...Show more
Storms of Silence by Joe Simpson
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography
A moving account of the author's maverick life as a mountaineer. Behind these tales of adventure lies a brooding disquiet as he struggles to come to terms with the grinding poverty and violence lurking so close to the surface of life everywhere that he travels. In Storms of Silence Joe Simpson recall ...Show more
The Beckoning Silence by Joe Simpson
$42.00 AUD
Category: Travel
Joe Simpson has experienced a life filled with adventure, but marred by death. He has endured the painful attrition of climbing friends in accidents, which call into question the perilously exhilarating activity to which he has devoted his whole life. Probability is inexorably closing in. The tragic los ...Show more
This Game of Ghosts by Joe Simpson
$39.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
A sequel to the award-winning "Touching the Void", in which Simpson described a fall in the Himalayas which crippled and almost broke him. This is a memoir of the signposts that have directed him since childhood to measure fear and embrace the unknown.
Touching The Void by Joe Simpson
$19.99 AUD
Category: Memoir
'Touching the Void' is the heart-stopping account of Joe Simpson's terrifying adventure in the Peruvian Andes. He and his climbing partner, Simon, reached the the summit of the remote Siula Grande in June 1995. A few days later, Simon staggered into Base Camp, exhausted and frost-bitten, with news that ...Show more
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