The Simpson Incident & Other Climbing MisadventuresAllen, Jr
150pp ISBN 0964169428
Stock No. MNU241The author tells of his lifelong obsession with climbing, reflecting on his bigger misadventures, including his climb of Les Courtes in the Alps (1981) with Joe Simpson, well before Simpson would become famous for his "Touching the Void." The "Simpson Incident" related at length here is another take on what Joe wrote about it in "This Game of Ghosts." The author, a health statistician, includes an important and useful chapter of results of a study of climbing accidents in Yosemite National Park in the 1980s
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