&sq=Facebook&lang=en&file=File:Joe_Simpson_-_2013.jpg) Simpson in 2013 | |
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| Born | 13 August 1960 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia |
Joe Simpson (born 13 August 1960) is a British mountaineer, author, and motivational speaker. While climbing in Peru in 1985, he suffered severe injuries and was assumed dead by his climbing companion Simon Yates after falling into a crevasse, but he survived and managed to crawl back to his base camp. He described the ordeal in his 1988 book Touching the Void, which has been adapted into a 2003 documentary film and a 2018 stage play, both of the same name.