This Game Of Ghosts

This book is not so much about why we climb - Simpson can't answer that for himself, much less the rest of us - but why we take such risks for such fleeting rewards. Overall this is a great book - perhaps the most honest bit of climbing writing I have read

John Sherman, Climbing

This is Simpson's rehabilitation. It is deeply honest, perplexed, confused, has no easy conclusions...This is not so much another climbing book as a psychological document, terrifying, challenging and extraordinary

Scotsman

This Game Of Ghosts is a strange, beautiful, bewildering and often very moving book... Simpson paints a warm, vivid picture of the climbing fraternity, and approaches a fusion of poetry and philosophy sometimes with his description of the impact on oneself of facing down the fear of dying; through this coming closer to understanding death, and thereby, joyously life

The List

This is a remarkable book by a remarkably lucky individual a homage to a breed of men and women who to the rest of us may appear to be touched by lunacy, but who are forever questing, forever valiant

Sunday Express

Simpson has a great way with words and his prose grips... A fascinating tale, wonderfully told

Ranulph Fiennes, Sunday Times

His fame is not due to the incidents themselves so much as the brilliant way he writes about them. The result leaves an impression of total honesty and lets the intense excitement of the stories speak for themselves

Independent