# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/joe-simpson
# Generated: 2026-08-13T01:29:36.840Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/joe-simpson"
name: "Joe Simpson"
slug: "joe-simpson"
description: "Joe Simpson is a British mountaineer, author, and motivational speaker. While climbing in Peru in 1985, he suffered severe injuries and was assumed dead by his climbing companion Simon Yates after falling into a crevasse, but he survived and managed to crawl back to his base camp. He described the ordeal in his 1988 book Touching the Void, which has been adapted into a 2003 documentary film and a 2018 stage play, both of the same name."
tagline: "British mountaineer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Joe_Simpson_-_2013.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1960-08-13"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           55.89
  momentum:             17.72165656103421
  historical:           17.00032
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/TouchingTheVoid"
    handle:    "TouchingTheVoid"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1440698/"
    handle:    "nm1440698"
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88_%D8%B3%D9%8A%D9%85%D8%A8%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "جو سيمبسون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88_%D8%B3%D9%8A%D9%85%D8%A8%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "جو سيمبسون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Simpson"
    title: "Joe Simpson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Simpson"
    title: "Joe Simpson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Simpson_(mountaineer)"
    title: "Joe Simpson (mountaineer)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Simpson"
    title: "Joe Simpson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88_%D8%B3%DB%8C%D9%85%D9%BE%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "جو سیمپسون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Simpson_(alpiniste)"
    title: "Joe Simpson (alpiniste)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Simpson"
    title: "Joe Simpson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Simpson_(alpinista)"
    title: "Joe Simpson (alpinista)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Simpson"
    title: "Joe Simpson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Simpson"
    title: "Joe Simpson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Simpson"
    title: "Joe Simpson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Simpson_(montanhista)"
    title: "Joe Simpson (montanhista)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%B8%D0%BC%D0%BF%D1%81%D0%BE%D0%BD%2C_%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%BE"
    title: "Симпсон, Джо"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Simpson"
    title: "Joe Simpson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Simpson_(da%C4%9Fc%C4%B1)"
    title: "Joe Simpson (dağcı)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%BE_%D0%A1%D1%96%D0%BC%D0%BF%D1%81%D0%BE%D0%BD"
    title: "Джо Сімпсон"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q680185"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1804192"
    title: "Joe Simpson"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump