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  1. 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.

  2. Nov 9, 2019 · I n 1985, 25-year-old Joe Simpson and another British climber, Simon Yates, 21, were climbing the west face of Siula Grande in the Peruvian Andes when Simpson fell and badly broke his leg....

  3. 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 still...

  4. Jan 16, 2022 · Touching the Void: climber Joe Simpson on the ‘feelgood’ show inspired by his survival. Simpsons incredible tale has been immortalised as a hit memoir, documentary and play, which has now...

  5. 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.

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  7. May 7, 2016 · Mountaineer Joe Simpson, of Touching the Void fame, followed his soldier father’s second world war footsteps. His mission – to understand a man who, like many of his peers, rarely expressed...

  8. 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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