This Game of Ghosts

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Published by Jonathan Cape, London, 1993, 1st UK Edition, D/w, Fine.   The highly regarded follow-up to Joe Simpson’s award winning Touching The Void is an extraordinary memoir, recalling his youth and the signposts that directed him to measure fear and embrace the unknown, through to more modern adventures. He recounts another fall in the Himalaya that nearly crippled him, his need to test his nerve again on Pumori, near Everest, and provides a philosophical reflection on what drives climbers to take the risks they do.