![]() A coward’s way out! Then I sat back and watched these five-star reviews coming in and thought: “Bloody hell, here we go again…” It’s strange. So if it succeeded, it was their success, and if it failed, it was their failure. Well, my first reaction was: “Good luck! How the hell are you going to stage that?” Then David Greig and Tom Morris came up to see me and I made it clear that I didn’t want any involvement in the writing or the creation of the work. What’s been your involvement in Touching the Void, the play? Simpson, 59, lives in the Peak District, and is the author of eight books. (In the process, Simpson became a hero and Yates an arch villain – both of which notions Simpson strongly rejects.) Now the events have also inspired a play, which opened at the Bristol Old Vic last year and this month transfers to London’s West End. ![]() ![]() ![]() Simpson’s book about his improbable survival, Touching the Void, has sold more than 1m copies and in 2003 became a Bafta-winning film. Further down their descent, Yates was forced to abandon Simpson on the mountainside. I n 1985, 25-year-old Joe Simpson and another British climber, Simon Yates, 21, were climbing the west face of Siula Grande in the Peruvian Andes when Simpson fell and badly broke his leg. ![]()
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