Read-alikes and related books

Books like Touching The Void

Looking for read-alikes for Touching The Void by Joe Simpson? These 24 titles overlap in Peru, Survival, Mountaineering, and Outdoor Skills and overall literary texture.

Peru Survival Mountaineering Outdoor Skills South America Adventurers & Explorers Sports Friendship Sports & Recreation Family & Relationships Travel Biography & Autobiography

Top related books to Touching The Void

Titles selected for shared themes, overlapping readership, and similar literary appeal.

Bear Grylls: Two All-Action Adventures Facing Up – Facing the Frozen Ocean

Bear Grylls

Themes: Mountaineering • Outdoor Skills • Adventurers & Explorers

The Sunlit Summit The Life of W.H. Murray

Robin Lloyd-Jones

Themes: Mountaineering • Outdoor Skills • Adventurers & Explorers

Lost in the Valley of Death A Story of Obsession and Danger in the Himalayas

Harley Rustad

Themes: Survival • South America • Adventurers & Explorers

The Next Everest Surviving the Mountain’s Deadliest Day and Finding the Resilience to Climb Again

Jim Davidson

Themes: Survival • Mountaineering • Adventurers & Explorers

The Way Out A True Story of Survival in the Heart of the Rockies — Devon O’Neil

Devon O'Neil

Themes: Survival • Outdoor Skills • Friendship

Cry from the Highest Mountain 20th Anniversary Edition

Burrows Tess

Themes: Mountaineering • South America • Adventurers & Explorers

Lost in the Jungle A Harrowing True Story of Adventure and Survival

Yossi Ghinsberg

Themes: Outdoor Skills • South America • Adventurers & Explorers

The Twenty-Ninth Day Surviving a Grizzly Attack in the Canadian Tundra

Alex Messenger

Themes: Survival • Outdoor Skills • Adventurers & Explorers

Climb to Glory The Adventures of Bill Hackett

June W. Hackett

Themes: Mountaineering • Adventurers & Explorers • Sports

#10

Becoming Odyssa Adventures on the Appalachian Trail

Jennifer Pharr Davis

Themes: Survival • Adventurers & Explorers • Sports

#11

Everest 1951 The Mount Everest Reconnaissance Expedition 1951

Eric Shipton

Themes: Mountaineering • Adventurers & Explorers • Sports

#12

In the Footsteps of Mallory and Irvine The Wildest Dream

Mark MacKenzie

Themes: Mountaineering • Adventurers & Explorers • Sports

#13

A Walk in the Park The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon

Kevin Fedarko

Themes: Survival • Adventurers & Explorers • Sports

#14

Everest, Inc. The Renegades and Rogues Who Built an Industry at the Top of the World

Will Cockrell

Themes: Mountaineering • Adventurers & Explorers • Sports

#15

High Exposure An Enduring Passion for Everest and Unforgiving Places

David Breashears

Themes: Mountaineering • Adventurers & Explorers • Sports

#16

Through the Brazilian Wilderness — THEODORE IV. ROOSEVELT

Theodore Iv Roosevelt

Themes: Outdoor Skills • South America • Sports

#17

In Bed with the Atlantic

Kitiara Pascoe

Themes: Outdoor Skills • Adventurers & Explorers • Sports

#18

View from the Summit The Remarkable Memoir by the First Person to Conquer Everest

Edmund Hillary

Themes: Mountaineering • Adventurers & Explorers • Sports

#19

Jungle A Harrowing True Story of Survival

Yossi Ghinsberg

Themes: Outdoor Skills • South America • Sports

#20

The Last of His Kind The Life and Adventures of Bradford Washburn, America’s Boldest Mountaineer

David Roberts

Themes: Mountaineering • Adventurers & Explorers • Sports

#21

Thirst 2600 Miles to Home

Heather Anderson

Themes: Mountaineering • Adventurers & Explorers • Sports

#22

Dark Shadows Falling

Joe Simpson

Themes: Mountaineering • Outdoor Skills • Sports

#23

Up: My Life’s Journey to the Top of Everest

Ben Fogle

Themes: Mountaineering • Adventurers & Explorers • Sports & Recreation

#24

The Good Life Gets Better Panning for Gold

Dorian Amos

Themes: Outdoor Skills • Adventurers & Explorers • Sports & Recreation

The 24 books on this list are tied together by themes of Peru, Survival, Mountaineering — the same threads that run through Touching The Void by Joe Simpson. Among the authors featured: Bear Grylls, Robin Lloyd-Jones, Harley Rustad, Jim Davidson, and others.