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Every 150ft [45m], the knot joining our two ropes would come up and hit Simon’s friction device. That was my signal to get my weight off the rope. Simon would unclip, put the knot on the other ...
Oct 13, 2021 · Joe Simpson, the elder climber, was 25 years old, and his partner Simon Yates was just 22. With more courage than hands-on experience, the two made a first ascent of the West Face of Siula Grande mountain (6,334 meters) via an extremely technical route. When they reached the summit, the bad weather that had held them so much during the ascent ...
Joe Simpson (born 13 August 1960) is a British mountaineer, author, and motivational speaker. While climbing in Peru in 1985, he suffered severe injuries and was assumed dead by his climbing companion Simon Yates after falling into a crevasse, but he survived and managed to crawl back to his base camp. He described the ordeal in his 1988 book ...
Nov 16, 2019 · In Peru in 1985, Joe Simpson - then 25 - and his 21-year-old climbing partner Simon Yates were descending the remote Siula Grande, which was hard to get up but even harder to get down, when Simpson broke his leg. They both assumed it was a death sentence, but Yates gave him a couple of paracetamol, dug himself into a bucket seat in the snow and lowered the stricken Simpson down the mountain ...
Joe Simpson, 63, is a mountaineer and writer who found fame in 1985 from the unique nature of his near-fatal descent of the peak Siula Grande in the Peruvian Andes. His memoir Touching the Void ...
Jan 19, 2004 · of his mind playing over what had happened to Simpson. The next day he was convinced that Simpson had been killed and that now he would die as retribution. Abseiling down the mountain, he saw the cliff and realized that Simpson had been hanging in space and had fallen into a crevasse that from Yates's vantage point, appeared bottomless.
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Yates describes the arduous lowering of Simpson; his frost bitten fingers; the rope digging into his harness and legs as he sat still in the snow, stuck holding the dead weight of his friend ...
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