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  1. 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 ...

  2. Joe Simpson, one of the first to scale the West Face of Siula Grande in 1985, recounts his harrowing ordeal of falling, being cut loose and crawling to safety. Read his story in his own words and learn what drove him to survive and how he coped with the trauma.

  3. Nov 16, 2019 · In Peru in 1985, Joe Simpson - then 25 - and his 21-year-old climbing partner Simon Yates were descending the remote Siula Grande, which was hard to get up but even harder to get down, when Simpson broke his leg. They both assumed it was a death sentence, but Yates gave him a couple of paracetamol, dug himself into a bucket seat in the snow and lowered the stricken Simpson down the mountain ...

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  5. Oct 13, 2021 · The book recounts the harrowing story of Simpson and his partner Simon Yates, who faced a life-or-death situation on a Peruvian mountain in 1985. Simpson broke his leg and fell into a crevasse, while Yates had to decide whether to cut the rope that tied them together.

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  7. Runs batted in. 124. Teams. Los Angeles Dodgers ( 1975 – 1978) Seattle Mariners ( 1979 – 1982) Kansas City Royals ( 1983) Career highlights and awards. Braves Hall of Fame. Joe Allen Simpson (born December 31, 1951) is an American former professional baseball player, and has been a radio and television broadcaster for the Atlanta Braves of ...

  8. Feb 9, 2013 · Joe Simpson remembers ending his mountaineering career on a high in 2009. The unclimbed south-west ridge of Mera Peak, a 6,476m mountain in the Sagarmatha region of the Nepalese Himalayas. The ...

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