Mountaineering writer Joe Simpson's first piece for OUTDOORSmagicwill be appearing on these pages soon, but if you'd like to know moreabout him, have a browse through this interview written byOUTDOORSmagic editor, Jon Doran, a few years back.Joe

Touching The Void author and sometime OM contributor Joe Simpsonpopped up on Sunday's edition of Radio 4's Desert Island Discs and,contrary to some dark forum suggestions, Boney M's 'Brown Girl In TheRing' didn't feature - possibly not one

Alastair Lee has just posted some more footage of the GordonStainforth interview with Joe Simpson at the recent SheffieldAdventure Film Festival.In this excerpt Simpson talks about climbing and risk and how itaffected his climbing. How many feet has

About Joe SimpsonInternationally renowned mountaineering writer and OUTDOORSmagiccontributor Joe Simpson lives in Sheffield and is the award-winningauthor of five books including international best seller Touching TheVoid which also won the Boardman

Accidents happen and, when appropriate, thenegligent should be held to account, says Joe Simpson in his firstpiece for OUTDOORSmagic, but take away our right to embrace risk andyou diminish life itself.High Risk or Hot Air?Last year an unfortunate

There's an interview with Touching The Void author Joe Simpson onthe NTL World web site that's worth a quick read.In the short question and answer article, Simpson says he 'nearlyfell off his sofa' when Jonathan Ross included the film in his

Just how much would Tom Cruise have paid Joe Simpsonif he'd ever got around to making that Hollywood version of Touchingthe Void? That's one of the interesting details revealed when GordonStainforth interviewed Simpson at the recent Sheffield

If you were wondering whatever happened to Joe Simpson, then an interview in the Telegraph this week has some of the answers. Apparently he's found love and written a new novel called 'The Sound of Gravity'.I interviewed Simpson about ten years ago

Joe Simpson's first piece for OUTDOORSmagic is now up on the site.Just click on home then on the box on the right hand side where itsays: Joe Simpson writes about things for OUTDOORSmagic.Or save yourself the hassle and just click on the link below

If you're into the outdoors, it's 99 per-cent certain you've comeacross Joe Simpson, and if you haven't, the good news is that you'regoing to soon, because Joe will be contributing an irregular columnto OUTDOORSmagic.Simpson is arguably