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Book: Touching the Void: The True Story of One Man's Miraculous Survival
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  1. Joe Simpson _ Touching the Void: The True

    Life can deal you an amazing hand. Do you play it steady, bluff like crazy or go all in?"
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  2. Joe Simpson _ Touching the Void: The True

    He had sat numb, repeatedly questioning why his own tumble had been held on the same piton just before the Japanese leader had fallen and ripped it out. A day later he was his normal self again: an experience absorbed, shelved in his memory, understood and accepted, and left at that.
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  3. Joe Simpson _ Touching the Void: The True

    He was still grinning, and his confidence was infectious. Who said one man can't rescue another, I thought. We had changed from climbing to rescue, and the partnership had worked just as effectively. We hadn't dwelt on the accident. There had been an element of uncertainty at first, but as soon as we had started to act positively everything had come together.
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