Joe Simpson (Mountaineer) — Transcript

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1. 0:00Joe Simpson is an English Mountaineer
2. 0:02author and motivational speaker while
3. 0:05climbing in Peru in 1985 he suffered
4. 0:08severe injuries and was thought lost
5. 0:10after falling into a crevasse but he
6. 0:12survived and managed to crawl back to
7. 0:14his base camp
8. 0:15he described the ordeal in his
9. 0:17best-selling 1988 book touching the void
10. 0:20which was adapted into a 2003
11. 0:22documentary film of the same name
12. 0:24Simpson was born on 9 August 1960 in
13. 0:28kuala lumpur malaysia where his father
14. 0:30was stationed with the british army from
15. 0:32the age of 8
16. 0:33Simpson traveled between schools in
17. 0:35Britain and various countries where his
18. 0:37father was stationed Simpson began rock
19. 0:39climbing after being introduced to the
20. 0:41sport by a teacher at Ampleforth college
21. 0:43he was 14 when he read the white spider
22. 0:46by Heinrich Harrer about the first
23. 0:48ascent of the North Face of the Eiger by
24. 0:50horror with Anderlecht Mayer Fritz
25. 0:52kasparek and Ludwig Borg in 1938 despite
26. 0:55the inherent dangers of mountaineering
27. 0:57described in the book this reading
28. 0:59sparked a passion for the mountains in
29. 1:01Simpson in 1985 Simpson and climbing
30. 1:04partner Simon Yates made a first ascent
31. 1:06of the previously unclimbed West face of
32. 1:08sila Grand in the Cordillera hue hue ash
33. 1:10of the Peruvian Andes thank you for
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36. 1:19nice day