Touching the Void: The True Story of One Man's Miraculous Survival

by Joe Simpson

I had no choice but to cut the rope a nagging thought said otherwise.

With each telling of their real story it gradually becomes a fiction, becomes someone else's experience, and they can separate themselves from the trauma.

Isn't memory a wonderful deceiver?

Life can deal you an amazing hand. Do you play it steady, bluff like crazy or go all in? I'll never know.