Against the Wall

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.