Against the Wall

Informationen zum Autor Simon Yates has climbed extensively in the Himalayas and the Andes, and travelled through India, Kazakhstan and Australia. His first book, Against the Wall , was runner-up for the Boardman Tasker Award for mountain literature. Klappentext Simon Yates has climbed extensively in the Himalayas and the Andes, and travelled through India, Kazakhstan and Australia. His first book, Against the Wall , was runner-up for the Boardman Tasker Award for mountain literature. Zusammenfassung Simon Yates is 'the one who cut the rope' in Joe Simpson's award-winning account of their epic struggle for survival in Touching the Void. After resting in a nearby town, they return to complete the climb, but Yates knows he still has to face one of life's greatest challenges...

Product details

• Authors: Simon Yates, Yates Simon
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.1998
• EAN: 9780099766414
• ISBN: 978-0-09-976641-4
• No. of pages: 192
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 13 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Travel > Travelogues, traveller's tales; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs, SPORTS & RECREATION / Mountaineering, Climbing & mountaineering, Memoirs, True stories of heroism, endurance & survival, Andes, Climbing and mountaineering, True stories of heroism, endurance and survival, Andes mountains