Genre: Adventure memoir. Subjects: History, mountain-climbing, self-discovery, fear, friendship, death, survival. Reading challenge: The 2016 Nonfiction Reading Challenge , hosted by The Introverted Reader Challenge tally : 1 book. I read Simpson‘s best-seller, Touching the Void , a couple of years ago and enjoyed it immensely. Perhaps „enjoyed“ is not the right word, rather I found it a thrilling and yes, touching, account of the ability of the human spirit to not give up when all hope seems lost. (There was also a lot of bloodymindedness involved). This book is written with the same stylistic skill as Touching the Void , but suffers somewhat from being more of a series of loosely interconnected accounts of separate climbing expeditions and adventures, ending with an attempt to scale the Eiger that would be end up being tinged with tragedy. The thread that holds the book together is Simpson‘s growing realisation of his mortality, the discovery that he doesn‘t rea...
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