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Joe Simpson

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Joe Simpson (born 13 August 1960) is a British mountaineer, author, and motivational speaker. While climbing in Peru in 1985, he suffered severe injuries and was assumed dead by his climbing companion Simon Yates after falling into a crevasse, but he survived and managed to crawl back to his base camp. He described the ordeal in his 1988 book Touching the Void, which has been adapted into a 2003 documentary film and a 2018 stage play, both of the same name. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Joe Simpson is the 45th most popular mountaineer, the 50th most popular biography from Malaysia and the most popular Malaysian Mountaineer.

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Among MOUNTAINEERS

Among mountaineers, Joe Simpson ranks 45 out of 56. Before him are Denis Urubko, Bachendri Pal, Apa Sherpa, Oh Eun-sun, Edurne Pasaban, and Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner. After him are Ang Rita, Nirmal Purja, Alison Hargreaves, Dean Potter, David Lama, and Erik Weihenmayer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1960, Joe Simpson ranks 424. Before him are Guy Fletcher, Lee Archambault, Loïc Wacquant, Ján Figeľ, Scott Baio, and Kurt Sutter. After him are Inger Helene Nybråten, Avram Glazer, Franz Viehböck, Valentin Yordanov, Konstantin Volkov, and Djamel Menad.

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In Malaysia

Among people born in Malaysia, Joe Simpson ranks 50 out of 90. Before him are Judo at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Men's 66 kg (null), Lee Chong Wei (1982), Francisco Mendes (1939), Sebastian Francis (1951), Anthony Soter Fernandez (1930), and Simon Russell Beale (1961). After him are Soh Chin Ann (1950), Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor (1972), Michael Wong (1970), Irene Fernandez (1946), Tony Fernandes (1964), and Mazlan Othman (1951).

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Among MOUNTAINEERS In Malaysia

Among mountaineers born in Malaysia, Joe Simpson ranks 1. 

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