内容紹介
Joe Simpson and his climbing partner, Simon Yates, had just reached the top of a 21,000-foot peak in the Andes when disaster struck. Simpson plunged off the vertical face of an ice ledge, breaking his leg. In the hours that followed, darkness fell and a blizzard raged as Yates tried to lower his friend to safety. Finally, Yates was forced to cut the rope, moments before he would have been pulled to his own death.
The next three days were an impossibly grueling ordeal for both men. Yates, certain that Simpson was dead, returned to base camp consumed with grief and guilt over abandoning him. Miraculously, Simpson had survived the fall, but crippled, starving, and severely frostbitten was trapped in a deep crevasse. Summoning vast reserves of physical and spiritual strength, Simpson crawled over the cliffs and canyons of the Andes, reaching base camp hours before Yates had planned to leave.
How both men overcame the torments of those harrowing days is an epic tale of fear, suffering, and survival, and a poignant testament to unshakable courage and friendship.
内容(「BOOK」データベースより)
本書は宙づりになってザイルを切断されたクライマーが、孤独と不安、意識の混乱、死への誘惑など、底知れぬ「虚空」に剥き出しになった自己の意識の激しい葛藤と、傷ついた肉体との格闘を経て辛くも生還するという、かつて日本人が書かなかった極限状況における意識と肉体のドラマを迫真的に描き切っている。優れたノンフィクション文学に与えられる国際的な文学賞である「NCR賞」と良質な山岳文学に与えられる「ボードマン・タスカー賞」を受賞。
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