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Against the Wall

Simon Yates is the man who cut the rope in Joe Simpson`s award-winning account of their struggle for survival in “Touching the Void”. In this book, Yates recounts how he and three companions climbed the world`s largest vertical rock-face, in the Chilean Andes.

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