Touching the Void

Touching the Void

  • Level 3
  • 1500 headwords
  • 64 pages

In 1985, top mountaineers Joe Simpson and his friend Simon Yates went climbing in the Peruvian Andes. After a series of accidents, Simon was forced to cut the rope which held him and Joe together. At the time, Simon believed that he was sending his friend to his death…

With Fact Files on the making of Touching the Void – the film, climbing Everest, and I want to be a climber!

ISBN: 9781905775088 (book only) ISBN: 9781905775095 (book & CD)

Listed in Scholastic ELT Readers: Level 3

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