The Beckoning Silence by Joe Simpson


ISBN
9780224061803
Published
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
304

Since his epic battle for survival in the Andes, recounted in the bestselling 'Touching The Void', Joe Simpson has experienced a life filled with adventure but marred by death. He has endured the painful attrition of climbing friends in accidents which call into question the perilously exhilarating activity to which he has devoted his whole life.

Probability is inexorably closing in. The tragic loss of a close friend forces a momentous decision upon him. It is time to turn his back on the mountains that he has loved. Never more alive than when most at risk, he has come to see a last climb on the hooded, mile-high North Face of the Eiger as the cathartic finale to his climbing career.

In a narrative which takes the reader through extreme experiences from an avalanche in Bolivia, ice-climbing in the Alps and Colorado and paragliding in Spain - before his final confrontation with the Eiger - Simpson reveals the inner truth of climbing, exploring the power of the mind and the frailties of the body through intensely lived accounts of both exhilaration and despair.

The subject of his new book is the siren song of fear and his struggle to come to terms with it.
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