Touching The Void Book Review. Xiao mei dreams of elevating her family’s citizenship status by becoming a full. The west face, remote and treacherous, had not been climbed before.
It has sold over a million. This is another example of me doing things back to front: 0060916540 · published by zondervan publishing house having recently watched the dvd of the film version of touching the void my wife decided she needed to read the book, so ordered it online for a buck or so.
Dying had seemed so far away, and yet now everything was tinged with it.
0060916540 · published by zondervan publishing house having recently watched the dvd of the film version of touching the void my wife decided she needed to read the book, so ordered it online for a buck or so. I watched the film version of ‘touching the void’ a few years ago, without considering that there was a novel out there. This is truly an astounding account of suffering and fortitude brought about when disaster struck after joe simpson and his climbing partner, simon yates, had just reached the summit of a remote 21,000 foot peak in the andes. Now, the nostrum that applies in such cases is generally that the film is never good as the book, because books go into more detail, and the pictures.