Joe simpson mountaineer interview
Joe simpson: how i survived my climbing accident - red bull!
Joe simpson mountaineer interview
TWO people climb a mountain, connected by a rope. They go up together in concerted motion, taking turns to carve out a path. If one falls, so does the other. This method is known as “alpine-style” – the purest kind of mountaineering.
Simon yates
It has the simplicity of a proverb and it loads the rope with meaning. When Simon Yates cut the cord between himself and his friend Joe Simpson during their fraught descent from the summit of Peru’s Siula Grande in 1985, he was taking the only possible, practical action.
The act itself was resounding. There were only two people on the mountain, but everybody heard about it.
“Some would say,” Yates later wrote in his book Against The Wall, “that cutting the rope, and the powerful symbol of trust and friendship it represents, should never have entered my mind.” “The cutting of the rope clearly touched a nerve,” acknowledged Simpson in the epilogue to the 10th anniversary edition of Touching The Void,