This Game of Ghosts by Joe Simpson
This Game of Ghosts is marketed as the follow-up to Simpson’s successful and fascinating Touching the Void but it’s really the story of his life as a whole, both before and after the events of Touching the Void. Much of the before stuff is pretty uninteresting. He meanders through it too quickly for the reader to care but not quickly enough. The most interesting information is how many near fatal accidents he was involved in prior to Touching the Void. This is a man who shouldn’t be climbing.
In the after section, he doesn’t climb for a while, then does. Unbelievably, he has more near fatal accidents including one in which he has to be lowered down a mountain with a broken leg again. Again, this is a man who shouldn’t be climbing.