Joe Simpson
1960
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photo credits: Wikimedia Commons
genre: mountaineering
country of citizenship: United Kingdom
languages spoken, written or signed: English
educated at: Ampleforth College
occupation: writer, motivational speaker, screenwriter, mountaineer
award received: NCR Book Award
Joe Simpson (born August 13, 1960) is a British mountaineer, author, and motivational speaker. While climbing in Peru in 1985, he suffered severe injuries and was assumed dead by his climbing companion Simon Yates after falling into a crevasse, but he survived and managed to crawl back to his base camp. He described the ordeal in his 1988 book Touching the Void, which has been adapted into a 2003 documentary film and a 2018 stage play, both of the same name. Source: Wikipedia (en)
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