Touching the Void

This memoir recounts a climb of Siula Grande in the Peruvian Andes by Joe Simpson and Simon Yates. After they reach the summit, Simpson breaks a leg on the descent; Yates lowers him in storms until, believing both will be pulled off, he cuts the rope and Simpson falls into a crevasse. The narrative alternates Simpson's crawl down the glacier and moraine with Yates's return to camp and the decision to leave. It is a first-person survival account of one mountain accident, not a general manual of alpine technique.

Bound in blue cloth printed in white and black with a design by Grandfield. Silver endleaves. Black slipcase.