Against the Wall

Author:

By Simon Yates

Awards:

The Boardman Tasker Prize For Mountain Literature Shortlisted 1997

Format:

Paperback

Availability:

In print, usually dispatched within 48 hours.

Price:

£7.99

Tagged with:

Climbing and Mountaineering, Narrative, Chile

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Further Details

• Published: 2nd Jan 1998
• ISBN: 0099766418
• Pages: 176
• Size: 198mm x 129mm

From Word of Sport:

The captivating story of the attempt to ascend one of the world's largest vertical rockfaces, the 4,000 ft East Face of the Central Tower of Paine inChile. Combining a solid narrative prose with a philosophical perspective on the value of human endeavour, this is an engaging and thought-provoking account.

From the Publisher:

Simon Yates is 'the one who cut the rope' in Joe Simpson's award- winning account of their epic struggle for survival in TOUCHING THE VOID. Afterwards, Yates continued mountaineering on the hardest routes. Perhaps the most testing of all was one of the world's largest vertical rock-faces, the 4,000-foot Central Tower of Paine in Chile. Battered by fercious storms, Yates and his three companions should have turned back. Instead they struggle on, living in hammocks suspended over the yawning chasm below. Their greatest difficulties, however, come not from the elements but from within themselves. Almost crippled with fear just below the summit, the disillusioned team is forced into a nightmare retreat. After resting in a nearby town, they return to complete the climb, but Yates knows he still has to face one of life's greatest challenges.