Storms of silence (Vintage Publishing)

New title from the author of the award- winning }Touching the Void{. In }Storms of Silence{ Joe Simpson writes about the two expeditions he had to abandon. The first was to Gangchempo which was stopped by a snow storm.

The second was to change his outlook on life. During an expedition to Cho Oyu in Tibet he had a disturbing encounter with a party of political refugees and became obsessed with stories of Chinese brutality in in the country.