Джо Симпсон – лучшие книги

The true story of Joe Simpson's terrifying climb of the mountain Siula Grande. Touching the Void is a gripping story of human courage and one man's will to survive.

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- Notes about the story.
- Points for Understanding comprehension questions.
- A Picture Dictionary.
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В книге описывается восхождение Симпсона и его друга Саймона Йетса на одну из вершин перуанских Анд в 1985 году. Двое молодых амбициозных альпинистов решают покорить удаленный и опасный западный склон Сиула Гранде, высотой 7 тысяч метров. При спуске в плохую погоду Симпсон падает и ломает ногу. В борьбе за выживание молодые люди вынуждены ежеминутно принимать непростые решения.

In Storms of Silence Joe Simpson brings up to date, in the vivid anecdotal style of This Game of Ghosts, his thoughtful, funny and moving account of his maverick life as a mountaineer. But behind the rich tapestry of adventures lies a dark and brooding disquiet. He recalls the terrifying avalanche that nearly wiped out his base camp during an attempt on the unclimbed north face of Gangchempo in the Himalaya. While climbing on Cho Oyo he meets a band of Khampas, including a four-year-old boy, fleeing over the high Nangpa La pass from the brutality of Chinese oppression in Tibet. Joe's love of Himalayan life contrasts with the ruthless Chinese destruction of the Tibetan culture and people. A violent brush with a skinhead in his home town of Sheffield is mirrored in his chilling encounter with the Peruvian police. On Huascaran, Peru's highest mountain, he hears unnerving ghostly voices and learns of the earthquake which buried 18,000 people and wiped out the town of Yungay below him. It reminds him of his boyhood visit to the Nazi concentration camp at Belsen. The book ends with the trauma of reliving, in quite unexpected circumstances, the dance with death he described so vividly in his bestselling book Touching the Void.