The facts of what happened on the slopes of Siula Grande are well known far beyond mountaineering circles. This time I listened on Audible, and although obviously I knew the outcome - and so does everyone, as here's Joe Simpson writing about it - I was as gripped as on my first reading. I read Joe Simpson's account of his extraordinary near-death experience in the Peruvian Andes many years ago, and have seen the Kevin Macdonald film. But, although my own experience is limited to walking to easy summits with at most a little rock-scrambling, I love the lure of mountains and am fascinated by the courage and single-mindedness, even fanaticism, of those who tackle forbidding heights. Just looking at that cover is enough to make my stomach lurch in fear. She is currently working on a new novel and completing a non-fiction title which will be published this year. Her Victorian Gothic young adult novel, Set in Stone, was children's category winner in the Costa Book Awards. Linda Newbery has written many novels for young readers and one for adults, Quarter Past Two on a Wednesday Afternoon (published in paperback as Missing Rose).
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