Book description
Simon Yates is 'the one who cut the rope' in Joe Simpson's
award-winning account of their epic struggle for survival in
Touching the Void
. Afterwards, Yates continued mountaineering on the hardest routes.
Perhaps the most testing of all was one of the world's largest vertical
rockfaces, the 4, 000-ft East Face of the Central Tower of Paine in
Chile. Battered by ferocious storms and almost crippled with fear just
below the summit, Yates and his three companions are forced into a
nightmare retreat. After resting in a nearby town, they return to
complete the climb, but Yates knows he still has to face one of life's
greatest challenges... Simon Yates has climbed extensively in the
Himalayas and the Andes, and travelled through India, Kazakhstan and
Australia. His first book, Against the Wall
, was runner-up for the Boardman Tasker Award for mountain literature.
