Against The Wall

Against The Wall
ISBN-10
1409020282
ISBN-13
9781409020288
Series
Against the Wall
Category
Biography & Autobiography
Pages
192
Language
English
Published
2010-04-01
Publisher
Random House
Author
Simon Yates

Description

Simon Yates is 'the one who cut the rope' in Joe Simpson's award-winning account of their epic struggle for survival in Touching the Void. Afterwards, Yates continued mountaineering on the hardest routes. Perhaps the most testing of all was one of the world's largest vertical rockfaces, the 4, 000-ft East Face of the Central Tower of Paine in Chile. Battered by ferocious storms and almost crippled with fear just below the summit, Yates and his three companions are forced into a nightmare retreat. After resting in a nearby town, they return to complete the climb, but Yates knows he still has to face one of life's greatest challenges...

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