In the same vivid anecdotal style, Joe recalls the severe snowstorm which put an end to an attempt with four others on Gangchempo and the infection which forced him to abandon the climb on Cho Oyu in Tibet. During that expedition he has a disturbing encounter with a party of political refugees and a 4 year old boy fleeing across the Tibetan border. He becomes obsessed with stories of Chinese brutality in the old world Tibet they overran by force 40 years ago. He also begins to question the ethics of playing rich men's games ...
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In the same vivid anecdotal style, Joe recalls the severe snowstorm which put an end to an attempt with four others on Gangchempo and the infection which forced him to abandon the climb on Cho Oyu in Tibet. During that expedition he has a disturbing encounter with a party of political refugees and a 4 year old boy fleeing across the Tibetan border. He becomes obsessed with stories of Chinese brutality in the old world Tibet they overran by force 40 years ago. He also begins to question the ethics of playing rich men's games in Third World countries, contributing little to the local people who endure a fearful struggle to survive. Oppression abroad also makes him see mindless violence in his home town of Sheffield in a new light. The book ends with his first trip to the Andes in Peru since TOUCHING THE VOID. There, besides completing one dramatic and breathtaking climb, he is forced to witness violence nakedly exposed exposed in everyday life and to experience in quite unexpected circumstances the trauma of reliving the dance with death he described so vividly in his first bestselling book.
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F in F jacket. F/F. 8vo. original blue boards in dustwrapper; pp. 304, with 44 monochrome & 13 colour illustrations. Heavy item (1.1 kg), additional postage may be required for international delivery. A fine copy. Shortlisted for the Boardman Tasker Prize 1996.
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Very good in very good dust jacket. Signed. First Edition. A hardback First Edition in Very Good condition, small bump to top front corner otherwise Fine, in a similar dustjacket. Attatched (by photo corners-remember them? ) to the initial blank page is a card bearing the handwritten motto 'Learn as if you were to live forever, live as if you were to die tomorrow. ' This is SIGNED (with Best Wishes) by Joe Simpson. This book is in stock now, in our UK premises. Photos of our books are available on request (the pictures you see on Alibris are NOT ou.
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