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  • Touching the Void

    by Joe Simpson ...
    The 25th Anniversary ebook, now with more than 50 images. 'Touching the Void' is the tale of two mountaineer’s harrowing ordeal in the Peruvian Andes. In the summer of 1985, two young, headstrong mountaineers set off to conquer an unclimbed route. They had triumphantly reached the summit, when a horrific accident mid-descent forced one friend to leave another for dead. Ambition, morality, fear and ... Read more

    $9.81 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Beckoning Silence

    by Joe Simpson ...
    Joe Simpson has experienced a life filled with adventure but marred by death. He has endured the painful attrition of climbing friends in accidents, calling into question the perilously exhilarating activity to which he has devoted his life. Probability is inexorably closing in. The tragic loss of a close friend forces a momentous decision upon him. It is time to turn his back on the mountains ... Read more

    $9.43 CAD

  • This Game of Ghosts

    by Joe Simpson ...
    When Simon Yates cut the rope and sent his friend plummeting to an ordeal few mountaineers can have contemplated, the outcome was totally unpredictable. That Joe Simpson survived is a revelation of the power of the human spirit to overcome fear, pain and deprivation of almost unimaginable intensity. He did not expect to live it all over again - more than once. The first test was to write his ... Read more

    $9.80 CAD

  • Storms of Silence

    by Joe Simpson ...
    In Storms of Silence, Joe Simpson recalls the severe snowstorm which put an end to an attempt with four others on Gangchempo and the infection which forced him to abandon the climb on Cho Oyu in tibet. During that expedition he has a disturbing encounter with a party of political refugees and a 4-year-old boy fleeing across the Tibetan border. He becomes obsessed with stories of Chinese brutality ... Read more

    $9.19 CAD

  • High Risk

    Climbing to extinction

    by Brian Hall ...
    Winner Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain LiteratureWinner Kekoo Naoroji Award for Himalayan LiteratureWinner Mountain & Adventure Narrative Award, New Zealand Mountain Film & Book FestivalThe golden age of Himalayan mountaineering, from the mid-1970s to the 1980s, brought forth a generation of radical young climbers. With tiny budgets and high ambitions they pioneered fast and light, alpine-style ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Audiobook

    Touching The Void

    by Joe Simpson ...
    Narrated by Daniel Weyman, Andrew Wincott ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 52 min

    Joe Simpson, with just his partner Simon Yates, tackled the unclimbed West Face of the remote 21,000 foot Siula Grande in the Peruvian Andes in June 1995. But before they reached the summit, disaster struck. A few days later, Simon staggered into Base Camp, exhausted and frostbitten, to tell their non-climbing companion that Joe was dead. For three days he wrestled with guilt as they prepared to ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Summit Fever

    by Andrew Greig ...
    A "wonderful" memoir about mountain climbing—and the risk, joy, and adventure of being alive (Chris Bonington).Shortlisted for the Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain LiteratureWhen poet Andrew Greig was asked by Scottish mountaineer Mal Duff to join his ascent of the Mustagh Tower in the Karakoram Himalayas, he had a poor head for heights and no climbing experience whatsoever. The result is this ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Annapurna

    The First Conquest of an 8000-Metre Peak

    by Maurice Herzog ...
    WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY JOE SIMPSONIn 1950, no mountain higher than 8,000 meters had ever been climbed. Maurice Herzog and other members of the French Alpine Club resolved to try. This is the enthralling story of the first conquest of Annapurna and the harrowing descent. With breathtaking courage and grit manifest on every page, Annapurna is one of the greatest adventure stories ever told.As well ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Genetic Screening and Counseling, An Issue of Obstetrics and Gynecology Clinics

    by Joe Leigh Simpson, MD, Anthony R. Gregg, MD ...
    Series Book Volume 37-1 - The Clinics: Internal Medicine
    Genetic Screening and Counseling is reviewed in this issue of Obstetrics and Gynecology Clinics, guest edited by Drs. Anthony R. Gregg and Joe Leigh Simpson. Authorities in the field have come together to pen articles on Contemporary Genetics Counseling: New Frontiers and Challenges, Newborn Screening, SMA Carrier Screening, Fragile X, Ashkenazi Jewish Screening in the 21st Century, Thrombophilia ... Read more

    $92.99 CAD

  • Hormonal and Genetic Basis of Sexual Differentiation Disorders and Hot Topics in Endocrinology: Proceedings of the 2nd World Conference

    Edited by Maria I. New, Joe Leigh Simpson ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    Proceedings of the 2nd World Conference – Hormonal and Genetic Basis of Sexual Differentiation Disorders and Hot Topics in Endocrinology. The meeting took place at The Eden Roc Hotel in Miami Beach, Florida, 1/15/10 – 1/17-10. Endocrinology and more specifically, the area of sexual differentiation disorders is an evolving field of medicine. The diagnosis and treatment of Disorders of Sex ... Read more

    $179.99 CAD

  • Practical Preimplantation Genetic Testing

    by Anver Kuliev, Svetlana Rechitsky, Joe Leigh Simpson ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    Fully revised and updated with the most current information, the third edition of this practical clinical text covers all aspects of the rapidly advancing field of preimplantation genetic testing (PGT). Although PGT has become an established procedure for genetics and assisted reproduction practices over the last decade, its wider application has occurred after the introduction of next generation ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • Catalyst Comix

    by Joe Casey ...
    Series series Catalyst Comix
    Straight from the glory of Comics' Greatest World, Frank "Titan" Wells, Amazing Grace, and the Agents of Change are back, baby! But you've never seen them like this! Superstar writer Joe Casey--along with the widest array of artistic talent this side of the Renaissance--gives superhero comics a back-alley facelift, as these very different champions confront cosmic threats, personal demons, ... Read more

    $13.59 CAD