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The True Story of One Man's Miraculous Survival
Harper
January 2004
On Sale: January 1, 2004
224 pages
ISBN: 0060730552
EAN: 9780060730550
Paperback (reprint)
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Non-Fiction | Non-Fiction Memoir
Joe Simpson and his climbing partner, Simon Yates, had just
reached the top of a 21,000-foot peak in the Andes when
disaster struck. Simpson plunged off the vertical face of an
ice ledge, breaking his leg. In the hours that followed,
darkness fell and a blizzard raged as Yates tried to lower
his friend to safety. Finally, Yates was forced to cut the
rope, moments before he would have been pulled to his own death. The next three days were an impossibly grueling ordeal for
both men. Yates, certain that Simpson was dead, returned to
base camp consumed with grief and guilt over abandoning him.
Miraculously, Simpson had survived the fall, but crippled,
starving, and severely frostbitten was trapped in a deep
crevasse. Summoning vast reserves of physical and spiritual
strength, Simpson crawled over the cliffs and canyons of the
Andes, reaching base camp hours before Yates had planned to
leave. How both men overcame the torments of those harrowing days
is an epic tale of fear, suffering, and survival, and a
poignant testament to unshakable courage and friendship.
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