Touching the Void: The Climber His Partner Had Already Cut Loose | TripMag Stories

On the night of 8 June 1985, a young British climber lay dying at the bottom of a crevasse high in the Peruvian Andes. His partner, believing him dead, had cut the rope and climbed back to base camp alone. Joe Simpson then crawled, broken-legged, four miles down the mountain over three days. The book he wrote became one of the most famous in mountaineering history.