Joe Simpson and his climbing partner, Simon Yates, had just
reached the top of a 21,000-foot peak in the Andes when disaster
struck. Simpson plunged off the vertical face of an ice ledge,
breaking his leg. In the hours that followed, darkness fell and a
blizzard raged as Yates tried to lower his friend to safety.
Finally, Yates was forced to cut the rope, moments before he would
have been pulled to his own death.
The next three days were an impossibly grueling ordeal for both
men. Yates, certain that Simpson was dead, returned to base camp
consumed with grief and guilt over abandoning him. Miraculously,
Simpson had survived the fall, but crippled, starving, and severely
frostbitten was trapped in a deep crevasse. Summoning vast reserves
of physical and spiritual strength, Simpson crawled over the cliffs
and canyons of the Andes, reaching base camp hours before Yates had
planned to leave.
How both men overcame the torments of those harrowing days is an
epic tale of fear, suffering, and survival, and a poignant
testament to unshakable courage and friendship.
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