Joe Simpson (mountaineer)
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Joe Simpson 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 fal
Simpson in 2013
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Touching the Void (film)
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Touching the Void is a 2003 survival documentary film directed by Kevin Macdonald and starring Brendan Mackey, Nicholas Aaron, and Ollie Ryall. The plot concerns Joe Simpson and Simon Yates' near-fata
Joe Simpson (mountaineer)
…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. Simpson was born on 13 August 1960 to a Scottish father and an Irish mother, in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia…
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