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Joe Simpson talks to Andrew St. George
Talking Mountains
Hay Festival 1996,
The Mountaineer and author of This Game of Ghosts who won the NCR Book Award for Touching the Void talks to the historian and climber Andrew St. George about avalanches, earthquakes and the violence of nature, selves and society that he explores in his writing. His most recent book Storms of Silence "capyures the full terror of mountaineering" - The Times