Touching the Void Greig DavidPaperback / softback
Touching the Void Greig DavidPaperback / softback In 1928 a journalist asked George Mallory why he wanted to climb Everest. Adapted for the stage by David Greig, Joe's story explodes into a bold…
Specifikacia Touching the Void Greig DavidPaperback / softback
Touching the Void Greig DavidPaperback / softback
In 1928 a journalist asked George Mallory why he wanted to climb Everest. Adapted for the stage by David Greig, Joe's story explodes into a bold theatrical fantasia. Mallory said, "Because it's there" Joe Simpson's memoir Touching the Void, international bestseller and BAFTA-winning film, charts his struggle for survival on the perilous Siula Grande mountain in the Peruvian Andes aged twenty-five.
Tense, funny and inquisitive, Touching the Void explores the mind's extraordinarily rich reservoirs of strength and imagination when teetering on the edge of death. David We discover the counter-cultural world of Alpine climbing and the sensual joy of the mountains; we bear witness to the appalling moment when Joe's climbing partner Simon Yates, battered by freezing winds and tethered to the injured Simpson, makes the critical decision to cut the rope.