The Beckoning Silence

ISBN-13: 9780099422433 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 304 str.

Joe Simpson

Opis

Joe Simpson has experienced a life filled with adventure but marred by death. 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.

Recenzje

Grippingly told...there is no question Simpson is a brilliant adventure writer. There are passages that had my heart racing Observer

O autorze

Joe Simpson is the author of several bestselling books, of which the first,Touching the Void, won both the NCR award and the Boardman Tasker Award. His later books are This Game of Ghosts - the sequel to Touching the Void - Storms of Silence, Dark Shadows Falling, The Beckoning Silence and one previous novel, The Water People.