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 of 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 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 from causing Joe's death, Simon had paradoxically saved his friend's life. What happened, and how they dealt with the psychological traumas that resulted when Simon was forced into the appalling decision to cut the rope, makes not only an epic of survival but a compelling testament of friendship.
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"Wow! This book was amazing. Joe Simpson and Simon Yates both went through so much during their climb of the west face of Siula Grande of the Peruvian Andes....seriously, this book is intense! I absolutely loved it. Joe is an amazing storyteller and he manages to lock the reader in a spiral of suspense throughout the last half of the book...even knowing that it would end well, I still couldn't help but be suspended in anticipation throughout the story. I don't usually read much non fiction, but this is one that I would definitely recommend!"
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Ambur (5 out of 5 stars)