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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.
First it was the stuff of folklore: a tale about two British climbers – 25-year-old Joe Simpson and 21-year-old Simon Yates – who, in 1985, became the first people to scale the West Face of...
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.
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...
Feb. 28, 1989 12 AM PT. Times Staff Writer. Joe Simpson, one leg badly broken, was dangling helplessly above his doom in the Peruvian Andes, connected to life and his climbing partner,...
Mar 12, 2004 · Touching the Void: Directed by Kevin Macdonald. With Brendan Mackey, Nicholas Aaron, Richard Hawking, Joe Simpson. The true story of two climbers and their perilous journey up the west face of Siula Grande in the Peruvian Andes in 1985.
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...
