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Top Climbing Books For A Dark Night
By Susan on 23/09/2009 19:36:20
Disasters, survival, humour, adventure, and stunning pics, all in one place ...
, but it’s one of the most ominous, so Joe Simpson, of Touching the Void fame, approached it with trepidation. Can he get his head round the psychological shadow of the mountain, as well as getting his rock boots up the Difficult Crack? Find out
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The Friday Matinee
By Jon on 18/04/2008 15:16:57
Outdoor heroes this week in our streaming video selection collection...
climbing book ever,Joe Simpson being interviewed by Gordon Stainforth and talkinggraphically about the thin line between life and death.Fiinally a hero of a different kind next, Yvon Chouinard,visionary climber, founder of Patagonia and Black Diamond
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Top Ten Mountain Books - Part Two
By Jon on 01/12/2004 15:28:20
The second part of our selection of favourite mountain literature, just in time for that Christmas prezzie list we know you're preparing.
favourite mountain books just in time toadd to the Chrismas pressie list...This Game of Ghosts- Joe Simpson Ina nutshell Simpson's second book, published after Touching TheVoid, This Game of Ghosts is basically Simpson's autobiography andgoes some way
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The Friday Matinee!
By Jon on 05/12/2008 12:29:41
Pre-Christmas, DVD trailer special - specially requested by Santa...
the film of Joe Simpson's Touching TheVoid, then where have you been. It's a brilliantly-filmed recreation ofthe book filmed on location in the Alps and the Cordillera Huyhuash ofPeru intercut with commentary from Simpson and his climbing partner
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The Friday Matinee
By Jon on 02/11/2007 12:09:42
It's countdown to the weekend time with this week's guest star, The Eiger :-)
What with the furore over the new Joe Simpson film about theEiger, we reckoned we'd have a dig through YouTube and seewhat we could come up with on the big, bad, Swiss mountain front forthis week's Friday Matinee.And what better way can
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The Friday Matinee
By Jon on 29/02/2008 14:53:01
This week's feast of streaming video has a Peruvian trekking and climbing flavour.
and watch part two, which is reallyspectacular in parts. The first mountain is Pisco by the way, an easyacclimatisation peak.Finally, the Cordillera Huayhuash, next door to the Blanca isprobably best known as the area where Joe Simpson's Touching
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Our Top Ten Mountain Books - Part One
By Jon on 19/11/2004 15:46:42
Part one of our top ten of inspirational mountain literature - as the nights get longer and colder, curl up with a good book :-)
's Part One, the first five.Touching The Void - Joe Simpson Ina nutshell Two young British climbers bite off more than they canchew climbing a remote Andean peak. On the descent from the summit,Joe falls and breaks his leg, his partner lowers him
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That Was the Weekend That Was
By Maria / OM members on 07/09/2004 10:51:19
From Skye to Zermatt, what were OUTDOORSmagic members up to last weekend?
After the first fantastic weather weekend that we can remember here at OM HQ, we asked all you OM members how you'd made the most of last weekend. If you missed it then you can still send in your outdoor tales to editor@outdoorsmagic.com, and we
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Outside Now! - Alastair Lee
By Alastair Lee on 12/12/2008 11:24:13
Film maker Alastair Lee's top five climbing films of all time kicks off a new OM regular.
Welcome to a new regular, irregular feature on the site - Outside Now! It'sa chance to find out what people in the outdoors world think about thebig issues, small issues. non issues and well, just what they think.To kick it off, multi award
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