Not only is Joe Simpson a great mountaineer, he's a REALLY good writer. I'm reading his new novel The Sound of Gravity and it is AWESOME. He describes things SO well. I wonder if his other novel is as good. *adds to amazon list* It seems like mountaineers are good writers..Anatoli Boukreev and Gaston Rebuffat were too. I love books haha ( Read more... )

I'm convinced all the mountaineers have known each other at some point haha. I put Anatoli's name into Amazon and a couple of Joe Simpson's books came up (I'd read them before too..but somehow didn't remember). In one book he talked about Anatoli on Everest in 1996 and in the other HE MET ANATOLI AND HE SIGNED JOE'S COPY OF HIS BOOK OMG SO JEALOUS ( Read more... )

I've noticed the mountaineering books I read connect to each other somehow..one mentions a famous ascent or mountaineer and then I look at my bookshelf and find I have a book by the mountaineer or the ascent (lmao..I love how Brown Girl in the Ring came on when typing this. It was stuck in Joe Simpson's head when he was crawling back to camp after ( Read more... )

I got another package from Dana! It's a Glacier National Park shirt..sweet! Haha *wears it tomorrow ( Read more... )

I was reading one of Joe Simpson's books and I knew he had broke his ankle on a fall on a mountain..but then I read he had walked 20,000 feet up a mountain ON CRUTCHES. Man..that guy is amazing! <3

Brr..it went from summer to fall! It's in the 50s and cloudy. Darn bipolar weather :P

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Whoa..the producer of Touching the Void and The Beckoning Silence is one of the producers on I Shouldn't Be Alive! No wonder that show is so awesome haha. They should get Joe on it..his story would be perfect for that show ( Read more... )

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Mmmm Brian Cox *droools* Funny..before watching this I had seen something else that explained why gold is rare haha ( Read more... )

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This is "Brown Girl in the Ring" by Boney M. It's the song Joe Simpson got stuck in his head when he was trying to get back to Simon. Joe said he HATES it but I really like it haha. It's so catchy and addictive but it gets stuck in my head REALLY easily. I love the comments too..most of them are about Joe haha (Like this one: "Oh man, almost died ( Read more... )

Are phone posts not working for anyone else? I keep trying to do one and it's not posting..grr. I could post a video (I'm wanting to do another pronunciation meme). Maybe tomorrow..(my family's over now and they'd wonder what the heck I was doing if I did it now haha ( Read more... )

I shall also post Touching the Void here. Joe Simpson = awesome

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The first guy is Joe, the second is Simon and the third is the guy who joined them randomly haha

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