Buy this book on-line SIMPSON**, JOE: : DARK SHADOWS FALLINGLONDON.JONATHAN CAPE,1997. ISBN 0224043684.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[Complete number line 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2.] FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn but price-clip to dw/dj. Bright,crisp,clean, glossy laminated, mountain scenic,olour photographic illustrated front panel of dw/dj with white+orange lettering,rear panel with author portrait photograph; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - near pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread - apart from my own collation.Bright,crisp,clean, sharp-cornered,publisher's original plain navy blue cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate b/w scenic photograph of south side of Everest illustrated pastedowns+endpapers.UK,8vo HB+ dw/dj,1st edn,11-207pp [paginated] includes author introduction,12 chapters,16pp contemporary scenic+autobiographical colour photographs in 2 blocks of 8pp apiece,between pp64/5 and pp144/5 respectively, acknowledgements; plus [unpaginated] half-title with b/w route-mapped Pumori mountain photographic illustrated frntis to it's recto,title page,separate contents+illustrations lists/tables,an epigram (Tenzig Norgay) and to recto of last page - a publisher's note on 'Touching the Void.'.
In 1992,an Indian climber was left to die alone high on the South Col of Mount Everest by other climbers who watched his feebly waving hand from the security of their tent thirty yards away. Some film footage of his corpse was later shown on television.Why did these onlookers not hold the dying man's hand and comfort him? The answer appalls Joe Simpson,who was himself left for dead in a crevasse at the foot of Siula Grande in Peru in 1985.It is an uncomfortable ethical question that he is forced to confront as he attempts a difficult new route on Pumori,with a clear view of the whole South Col from close to the vantage point where Eric Shipton first spotted the way up the south side of Everest taken by Hillary and Tenzig in 1953.Now that Everest has become the playground of the rich, where commercial operators offer guided tours to the top up fixed ropes,camping amidst the detritus and unburied corpses of previous less fortunate climbers,Simpson wonders if the noble, caring instincts that once characterised mountaineering have been irrevocably displaced - as in other facets of today's society.On investigation,he finds it a less black and white issue than at first seemed.'I shall never forget the horror of dying alone - the awful empty loneliness of it,' he says.Yet his empathy with the victims of storms,altitude sickness,or misjudgements,is tested time and time again as he explores anecdotally and in conversations with his companions on Pumori,the moral climate of mountaineering in the 1990s.
Here is an exciting and challenging new book by the best-selling author of 'Touching the Void', which won the Boardman Tasker Award and the £25,000 NCR Award and is now available in 14 languages.Choosing it as his 'Book of the Year', George Steiner wrote in the Sunday Times: 'Touching the Void' is one of the absolute classics of mountaineering. . . a document of psychological,even philosophical witness of the rarest compulsion.' Its sequel,'This Game of Ghosts',was also 'Book of the Year' for Ranulph Fiennes in the Sunday Express,where he described it as 'a remarkable book'.
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