The Beckoning Silence (Paperback)

from nandadevi

SkyRider says it very well here. Simpson is a writer of considerable talent. This is a loose narrative, stories strung together following a very slowly evolving decision to give up climbing, but only after just a 'few more' routes. That the last (in this book at least) is the north face of the Ei...

from LKChapman

I read this after reading Touching the Void earlier this year and being completely blown away by it, and decided to read more books about climbing because something about it seems to resonate with me even though I'm not a climber myself and I don't even know anybody who is!This book was an intere...

from fojxl1

Compared to the previous two books I've read by him, I was seriously underwhelmed by this one. Bit of a trek to make it to the end...

from SkyRider

In the world of mountaineering writing Joe Simpson is without peer. There seem to be two reasons for this. First, Simpson is one of those people to whom things just keep happening. Famously, in "Touching the Void", he shatters a leg in a fall, is left to die at high altitude by his climbing partn...

from JulietLegg

That Joe Simpson writes well. I shall have to go and read Touching the Void again now. Fascinating to see how age tames climbers and they feel the risks are less worth it, indeed they see the risks where they didn't before. MInd you, having seen paragliders at the Alps, I'm not exactly sure that ...