This is the third book of Joe Simpson that I have read and I am going to read more. I have already read Touching the Void, This Game of Ghosts and now The Beckoning Silence. “Sometimes I feel completely unnerved, wary of the cupboard crammed with skeletons that sometimes seem to constitute the sum total of my…
Tag: Mountaineering
Meeting the Mountain of Inspiration
Don’t cheat, don’t scroll down the page in advance to see whom I met. You have to hear out my tale first. I read about him and heard of him much before I met him. I gobbled up a fascinating book by him on Everest with record speed. In a world full of things that…