I think I have this version. I may have seen it in LifeLine and bought it or not bought it. Have a paperback version. Great tale! FA new route on the Big One!
Went to a lecture by Joe Simpson back in the 90s at ANU. F me, if that man ever offers to go climbing with you, run away. How he is even alive (and that's not counting when he broke his leg on Aconcagua) is beyond me.
Hey Boodwah- do you place the orders with a separate card and hustle them in a carrier bag into the back shed? Then they get promoted to the house over several months... Then, when, the Missus sees a new book she doesn't recognise: "I've had that one for years, nearly new from the Op shop". hmmm...a new thread I think...
His first autobiography Living Dangerously [late 80s] goes into his army life, the 70s and 80s in detail and is perhaps a better read. Covers off in a chapter or 2 the Transglobe expedition of the late 70s early 80s - (covered in Towards the Ends of the Earth). I think Mad Bad abridges all that, but catches up with his 90s trips and Everest bid. I've also got Mind over Matter which is about his crossing of the Antarctic Continent in the early 90s. He never claimed the full crossing of the island,- and iceshelf as they didn't get that far ;-), but they later worked out they had at least crossed the continent...there's a gear list which is of interest - mostly simple gear.
This one is a stunner, pretty sure @Rimey grabbed one in Cham: The bookshop on the main st of Cham is extraordinary.
I have this too - it was the first real descent guide I had heard of. Andrew didn't know what to charge for sending to Oz, so he asked for a tub of vegemite as he 'has a thing for weird spreads'.
I saw ranulph fiennes speak at the opera house a couple of years ago. He didn't crack a smile the entire night, yet everyone was in stitches - the driest sense of humour I've ever seen. Was a serious life highlight.
Most of my mountain or ski related books are sitting in my place in Jindy. However, have this at home in Sydney. Not mountain related, not skiing related, but I think it is in the spirit of things, and a cracking read
I don't have that many but we do share many of the same books. Mine are all in storage. We've just finished the last of our complete renovation today. Taking 12 months and 5 days to complete. Yippee. we downsized considerably so not sure if the books will find a shelf in these digs.
Yeah mine were in boxes for a long time after moving in with +1. Magically when we bought some shelves my books filled 90% of it
When we were packing up the old house my wife said "what do you want to do with all your bloody books". I think the look she got from me answered the question.
I did. Well used. Brings back memories and stokes the addiction. This title is Cham porn and guidebook with maps and detailed routes. At 4.5 kg there's plenty of it, which lead to a stand off at the BA checkin at Geneva airport on my departure. Ideally combined with Anselme Baud's "Mont Blanc and the Aiguille Rouge" and the IGN maps 3630OT Chamonix and 3530ET Samoens (which covers the Aiguilles Rouge). and all available from that shop in Cham
Touching The Void was one of the best books I have read, amazing story. But it wasn't Aconcagua, it was in Peru somewhere. Aconcagua is the highest mountain outside the Himalayas which certainly presents problems, but as a climb it is pretty easy.
You're right. My copy of 'Touching the Void' is somewhere in boxes under the house. I should have checked before posting. One of the other mountain books I've got is the one produced on the Australian Bicentennial Everest Expedition. Some great photos and quite humourous at times.
In the ghost book - his other book - there's the shot of him hanging on a rope when he got rescued in the Alps. Absolute deadpan. He probably does spill into a different category..
Haven’t got it yet but this is supposed to be really good http://www.grantdixonphotography.com.au/book/ PS: met Dombrovskis and his camera in the Great Ravine on the Franklin River in 81
