Storms of Silence

Informationen zum Autor Joe Simpson Klappentext Joe Simpson is the author of several best-selling books, of which the first, Touching the Void , won both the NCR Award and the Boardman Tasker Award. Touching the Void has become a classic and an international bestseller, translated into fourteen languages and made into an award-winning feature-length documentary film (winner of the Outstanding British Film of the Year BAFTA 2004). Joe currently lives in Sheffield. Zusammenfassung In Storms of Silence Joe Simpson 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. He becomes obsessed with stories of Chinese brutality in the old world Tibet they overran by force 40 years ago.

Product details

• Authors: Joe Simpson
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 06.02.1997
• EAN: 9780099578116
• ISBN: 978-0-09-957811-6
• No. of pages: 336
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 22 mm
• Subjects: Travel > Travelogues, traveller's tales > Asia; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Survival, SPORTS & RECREATION / Mountaineering, Autobiography: sport, True stories of heroism, endurance & survival, Climbing and mountaineering, True stories of heroism, endurance and survival, SPORTS & RECREATION / Rock Climbing