Joe Simpson interview on Today

Joe Simpson was on the Today programme last week talking about Touching the Void, the new film of his book. Listen to the clip from the programme 6 minutes in RealAudio.
Interesting article, with good questions being asked about the experience of writing the book and making the film. It is also good to see mountaineering getting a wider audience. The book, Touching the Void (amazon.com, amazon.co.uk) is an excellent read, not so much a mountaineering book, as about the will to survive and the loss of companionship. Other books by Joe Simpson are definitely worth reading too, This Game of Ghosts (amazon.com, co.uk) is a sad, but powerful account of the loss of life at the high end of mountaineering and the commercialisation of climbing which is leading to needless deaths in accidents.