Joe Simpson has experienced a life filled with adventure but marred by death.He has endured the painful attrition of climbing friends in accidents callinginto q... » 

Joe Simpson has experienced a life filled with adventure but marred by death.He has endured the painful attrition of climbing friends in accidents callinginto question the perilously exhilarating activity to which he has devoted hislife. Probability is inexorably closing in. The tragic loss of a close friendforces a momentous decision upon him. It is time to turn his back on themountains that he has loved. Never more alive than when most at risk he hascome to see a last climb on the hooded milehigh North Face of the Eiger asthe cathartic finale. In a narrative which takes the reader through extremeexperiences from an avalanche in Bolivia iceclimbing in the Alps and Coloradoand paragliding in Spain before his final confrontation with the Eiger Simpsonreveals the inner truth of climbing exploring both the power of the mind andthe frailties of the body. The subject of his new book is the siren song offear and his struggle to come to terms with it. «