Joe Simpson
British mountaineer · United Kingdom · On the map · Writers · Born 1960 · age 66
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.
Joe Simpson is read about 271 times a day, in 18 languages.
A typical day, 30 days to 6 November 2026
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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.
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United Kingdom
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Writers
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Born 1960 · age 66
