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Joe Simpson (born August 13, 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.
Joe Simpson recounts one of mountaineering's greatest survival stories. What drives a person to survive when all hope is gone? This climber lived to tell and his harrowing story is...
Nov 16, 2019 · Joe Simpson: the rime of the ancient mountaineer? 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.
Feb 9, 2013 · Joe Simpson remembers ending his mountaineering career on a high in 2009. The unclimbed south-west ridge of Mera Peak, a 6,476m mountain in the Sagarmatha region of the Nepalese Himalayas....
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...
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Jan 19, 2004 · When Joe Simpson and Simon Yates set out in June 1985 to scale Siula Grande, a 20,853-foot mountain in the Peruvian Andes, they knew that all previous attempts to reach the summit had failed.
