Book description
'All mountaineers develop differently. Some go higher, some try
ever-steeper faces and others specialise in a particular range or
region. I am increasingly drawn to remoteness - to places where few
others have trod.'
The Wild Within is the third book from Simon Yates, one of
Britain's most accomplished and daring mountaineers. With his
insatiable appetite for adventure and exploratory mountaineering,
Yates leads unique expeditions to unclimbed peaks in the Cordillera
Darwin in Tierra del Fuego, the Wrangell St-Elias ranges on the
Alaskan-Yukon border, and Eastern Greenland. Laced with dry humour, he
relates his own experience of the rapid commercialisation of mountain
wilderness, while grappling with his new-found commitments as a family
man. At the same time he must endure his role in the film adaptation
of Joe Simpson's Touching The Void, having to relive the events of
that trip to Peru for an award winning director.
Yates' subsequent escape to the some of the world's most remote
mountains isn't quite the experience it once was, as he witnesses
first hand the advance of modern communications into the wilderness,
signalled by the ubiquitous mobile phone masts appearing in once
deserted mountain valleys. He is left to dwell on the remaining
significance of mountain wilderness and begins a journey to rediscover
his own notion of 'wild'.
'All mountaineers develop differently. Some go higher, some try
ever-steeper faces and others specialise in a particular range
or region. I am increasingly drawn to remoteness - to places
where few others have trod.'
The Wild Within is the third book from Simon Yates, one of
Britain's most accomplished and daring mountaineers. With his
insatiable appetite for adventure and exploratory mountaineering,
Yates leads unique expeditions to unclimbed peaks in the
Cordillera Darwin in Tierra del Fuego, the Wrangell St-Elias
ranges on the Alaskan-Yukon border, and Eastern Greenland. Laced
with dry humour, he relates his own experience of the rapid
commercialisation of mountain wilderness, while grappling with his
new-found commitments as a family man. At the same time he must
endure his role in the film adaptation of Joe Simpson's Touching
The Void, having to relive the events of that trip to Peru for a
Hollywood director.
Yates' subsequent escape to the some of the world's most remote
mountains isn't quite the experience it once was, as he witnesses
first hand the advance of modern communications into the
wilderness, signalled by the ubiquitous mobile phone masts
appearing in once deserted mountain valleys. He is left to dwell
on the remaining significance of mountain wilderness and must
rediscover what the notion of 'wild' means for him now.
