An account of the ascent of the 21, 000ft Siula Grande peak in the Peruvian Andes. Joe Simpson & his climbing partner, Simon Yates, had achieved the summit before the first disaster struck. What happened & how they dealt with the psychological traumas that resulted is the subject of this book. ...

Extensive reading improves fluency & there is a real need in the ELT classroom for motivating, contemporary graded material that can instantly appeal to students. This title presents the true story of a mountaineering expedition which goes dreadful wrong. ...

Kevin Mac Donald's ('A Day in September') docu-drama is based on a true story. In 1985 two ambitious young British mountaineers, Joe Simpson & Simon Yates, set off to scale the treacherous west face of the Siula Grande in the Peruvian Andes. They reached the summit on day three, but shortly after starting the descent Simpson fell & broke his leg badly. This accident turned their daring expedition into a desperate fight for survival, when Yates had to decide whether to stay with Simpson & wait to be rescued (and possibly die) or leave him behind to save his own life. ...

Kevin Mac Donald's ('A Day in September') docu-drama is based on a true story. In 1985 two ambitious young British mountaineers, Joe Simpson & Simon Yates, set off to scale the treacherous west face of the Siula Grande in the Peruvian Andes. They reached the summit on day three, but shortly after starting the descent Simpson fell & broke his leg badly. This accident turned their daring expedition into a desperate fight for survival, when Yates had to decide whether to stay with Simpson & wait to be rescued (and possibly die) or leave him behind to save his own life. ...

An account of the ascent of the 21, 000ft Siula Grande peak in the Peruvian Andes. Joe Simpson & his climbing partner, Simon Yates, had achieved the summit before the first disaster struck. What happened & how they dealt with the psychological traumas that resulted is the subject of this book ...