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  <about><![CDATA[ Joe Simpson is the author of the bestselling Touching the Void, as well as four subsequent non-fiction books published by The Mountaineers Books: This Game of Ghosts, Storms of Silence, Dark Shadows Falling, and The Beckoning Silence. The Beckoning Silence won the 2003 National Outdoor Book Award. The other three published by The Mountaineers Books were all shortlisted for the Boardman Tasker Award. ]]></about>
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    <![CDATA[Touching the Void: The True Story of One Man's Miraculous Survival]]>
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    <![CDATA[<p>Joe Simpson and his climbing partner, Simon Yates, had just reached the top of a 21,000-foot peak in the Andes when disaster struck. Simpson plunged off the vertical face of an ice ledge, breaking his leg. In the hours that followed, darkness fell and a blizzard raged as Yates tried to lower his friend to safety. Finally, Yates was forced to cut the rope, moments before he would have been pulled to his own death.</p><p>The next three days were an impossibly grueling ordeal for both men. Yates, certain that Simpson was dead, returned to base camp consumed with grief and guilt over abandoning him. Miraculously, Simpson had survived the fall, but crippled, starving, and severely frostbitten was trapped in a deep crevasse. Summoning vast reserves of physical and spiritual strength, Simpson crawled over the cliffs and canyons of the Andes, reaching base camp hours before Yates had planned to leave.</p><p>How both men overcame the torments of those harrowing days is an epic tale of fear, suffering, and survival, and a poignant testament to unshakable courage and friendship.</p>]]>
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    <![CDATA[This Game of Ghosts]]>
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    <![CDATA[In his second memoir, climber Joe Simpson reveals a lifetime of flirtation with danger, from risky childhood stunts to an astonishing number of near-death climbing accidents. Simpson revisits his many brushes with death while climbing: a 2,000-foot fall in the Courtes, the collapse of a bivy ledge on the Dru, a 150-foot fall on Nepal's Pachermo, and his nearly fatal climb in the Andes, covered in his Boardman Tasker Award-winner, <em>Touching the Void</em>.<p> Simpson writes in an effort to understand his own reasons for taking such risks. He describes what it is like to face death, and works through the guilt of being spared so many times when other climbing friends and mentors were not. Simpson also copes with the frustration of having his climbing ambitions cut short by injury and the resultant feelings of uncertainty. Complete with photo documentation of key events in the author's life, <em>This Game of Ghosts</em> is a gripping account of honesty and fortitude that will keep both mountaineers and outdoor enthusiasts in suspense.</p>]]>
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    <![CDATA[The Beckoning Silence]]>
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    <![CDATA[<em>&#8220;I had to stand there and watch while the rest of my life was determined by the shaky adhesion of a few millimetres of fractured ice and the dubious friction of a tiny point of metal in a hairline crack in a rock wall&#8230;&#8221;</em><br/><br/>Marking the climax of his climbing career, Joe Simpson confronts his fears and mountaineering history in an assault on the North Face of the Eiger. Since his epic battle for survival in the Andes, recounted in 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. 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 mile-high North Face of the Eiger as the cathartic finale to his climbing career.<br/><br/>In a narrative that 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 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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    <![CDATA[The author of <em>Touching the  Void</em> interweaves stories of his own mountaineering adventures with reflective consideration of  recent tragedies on the world's loftiest peaks. As more people take to the mountains--many of them  amateurs and dilettantes who can afford to hire guides of varying levels of expertise--the odds of disaster  loom ever higher. Simpson weighs in on &quot;summit fever,&quot; the treatment of local sherpas, and  what he sees as unimaginative &quot;yak routes&quot; up the once-grand mountains. ]]>
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    <![CDATA[Storms of Silence]]>
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    <![CDATA[THE DON\'T DIE OUT THERE DECK<br/><br/>&lt;ul&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;]]>
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    <![CDATA[Im Banne des Giganten]]>
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    <![CDATA[ Es dauert ein paar Dutzend Seiten, bis der auf dem Cover erwähnte und abgelichtete Gigant allein namentlich auftaucht. Und dann bringt der Leser noch einmal einige Kapitel hinter sich, bis der Gigant auch physisch beziehungsweise der Autor bei ihm ist: beim schweizerischen Eiger, dessen Nordwand seit Generationen einen berühmt-berüchtigten Ruf genießt.<p>  Allein diese textliche Gewichtung macht deutlich, dass es nicht nur um diese eine Besteigung geht. Der Untertitel des Buches, das die <em>Sunday Times</em> als &quot;absoluten Klassiker der Bergliteratur&quot; preist, lässt es ebenfalls erahnen. Er lautet: <em>Der lange Weg zum Eiger</em>. Doch damit keine falschen Eindrücke entstehen: Dieses Vorspiel ist alles andere als langweilig, vielmehr erlaubt es intensive Einblicke in das Leben und Denken des Extrembergsteigers Joe Simpson, der sich in seiner britischen Heimat längst den Beinamen &quot;Serial Survivor&quot; erworben hat. Zu dieser Ehre gelangte er, weil er bereits mehrere Male dem Tod respektive Abgrund ins Auge blickte, nachzulesen in seinem Bestseller <em>Sturz ins Leere</em>.<p>  Das Angenehme an Simpsons Erzählungen: Er unterscheidet sich zu zahlreichen schreibenden Bergsteigerkollegen allein dadurch, dass er seine eigene Leistung nie überhöht darstellt. Im Gegenteil: Der Leser bekommt es mit einem selbstkritischen, zuweilen unsicheren und ängstlichen, kurzum sympathischen Menschen zu tun, der längst nicht nur von Glücksgefühlen schreibt, sobald er einen Eispickel in die Hand bekommt. Trauer spielt zum Beispiel eine Rolle, ganz besonders wenn sein Freund stirbt. Das passiert zwar beim Drachenfliegen, macht aber schlagartig wieder bewusst, dass sich Simpson und seine Freunde ständig an lebensbedrohlichen Grenzen bewegen. Warum solche das Leute tun und wie sie sich im Machtkampf mit der gewaltigen Natur fühlen, zeigt Simpson überdeutlich auf. Mit dieser feinfühligen Analyse wird Simpson all jene begeistern, die auch diesen Drang verspüren, die eigenen Grenzen zu testen. <em>--Christian Haas</em></p></p>]]>
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    <![CDATA[La mort suspendue]]>
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    <![CDATA[Epic: Stories of Survival from the World's Highest Peaks]]>
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    <![CDATA[Some of the most exciting and harrowing mountaineering events ever chronicled are collected in <em>Epic</em>. From Jon Krakauer's solo ascent of Devil's Thumb in Alaska to John Climaco's account of being threatened by a homicidal Pakistani army officer in the Himalayas, these are stories of survival in nature's most inhospitable places.]]>
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    <![CDATA[La dernière course : Eiger]]>
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    <![CDATA[The Water People]]>
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