Touching the Void
by Joe Simpson
Simpson's account of breaking his leg on Siula Grande, being lowered and then cut loose by his partner, falling into a crevasse and crawling for days back to camp. One of the greatest survival books and a study in continuing when there is no reason to.
Read it if…
you want a true story of survival that reframes what endurance means.
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Skip it if…
you cannot handle sustained physical suffering on the page.
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Three things you will actually use
- Break the impossible into the next twenty minutes.
- Decisions in extremity are not for judging from comfort.
- Keep moving.
Do this first
Read the crevasse chapter and note how he broke the impossible into twenty-minute goals.
Our verdict
Endurance, redefined.
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