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	ENOUGH ROPE with Andrew Denton - episode 67: Simon Yates (07/03/2005)
		Simon Yates was immortalised in the film and book 'Touching the Void', the now legendary story of Joe Simpson, a mountain climber who shattered his leg on the descent of one of the world's toughest peaks.
		SIMON YATES: Well it's a whole series of events I suppose part of it is a great deal of the pleasure of it all is that the outcome's uncertain, you don't know what's going to happen and it's very complex and you're continually having to make decisions and alter your plans and your ideas...
		SIMON YATES: I thought we were probably both going to die to be quite honest, you know, because we were still...about 20 000 feet on this mountain in the middle of nowhere in Peru and, yeah it's not like you can dial a friend is it or something and get yourself beamed out.
	www.abc.net.au /tv/enoughrope/transcripts/s1318550.htm (3001 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Against the Wall: Books: Simon Yates (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Simon Yates is the man who cut the rope in Joe Simpson's award-winning account of their struggle for survival in "Touching the Void".
		Simon is quite frank about his own vulnerability, describing how he retches with fear over some of the dangerous moves he has to commit to on the climb.
		Simon is the only author to my knowledge who has posed this question in print, yet probably it is the secret question that every climber asks him/herself when faced with the task they have set themselves (or been pursuaded into).
	www.amazon.co.uk /Against-Wall-Simon-Yates/dp/0099766418 (1187 words)

	MetroRock - Simon Yates Slideshow and Talk : Beyond the Void (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		In a career spanning over twenty years Simon Yates' climbing and traveling has taken him from Alaska in the west to Australia in the east, from the Canadian Arctic in the north to the tip of South America.
		Simon has made two sailing and mountaineering trips to Chilean Tierra del Fuego resulting in the first ascent of Monte Ada (2100m) and the third ascent of Monte Frances (2200m).
		Most recently (September 2004) Simon returned to Pakistan and made the first ascent of the S.W.Face of Hispar Sar (6400m), and in May 2005 climbed a new route on the West Face of Mount Alverstone in the remote Wrangell -St Elias range of mountains on the Alaskan - Yukon border.
	www.metrorock.com /yates.html (498 words)

	Simon Yates looking for win at Volvo Masters of Asia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Scotland’s Simon Yates is hoping that some inside knowledge will help him finish an injury-interrupted year on a high note with victory in next month’s US$650,000 Volvo Masters of Asia at Thai Country Club.
		Yates, who is based in Thailand, will have Thai Country Club professional Daniel Wyborn on the bag for the Asian Tour’s season-ending event from December 14-17.
		Yates is making a bit of a name for himself in the fast lane with a first place finish under his belt in the Thailand Supercar Series.
	www.golfinternationalmag.co.uk /News/271106_2.htm (747 words)

	Simon Yates (mountaineer) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Simon Yates (born 1963) is a British mountaineer made famous by the book Touching the Void by Joe Simpson, about a successful but disastrous attempt by him and the author to climb the West Face of Siula Grande in the Peruvian Andes, in 1985.
		Simon started to study biochemistry, however gave that up to become a full time climber and mountaineer.
		He is the author of two autobiographical books about mountaineering, Against the Wall (1997 ISBN 0-09-976641-8), which details an expedition to climb the central Tower of Paine in Chilean Patagonia and was runner-up for the Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature and The Flame of Adventure (2001 ISBN 0-89886-818-1).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Simon_Yates_(mountaineer) (212 words)

	Going 'Beyond the Void' with Simon Yates - Sports
		Yates' and Simpson's story recently made it to movie theaters as a docudrama called "Touching the Void."; Now at age 41, Yates is still alpine-style climbing, ascending a mountain with a light amount of gear and doing the climb in a single push.
		Before he leaves Utah, Yates plans to do a little ice climbing, and he will be the keynote speaker for the Weber Pathways fundraiser dinner at the Timbermine restaurant on Friday night.
		After speaking in Utah, Yates is headed back to England for a week of lecturing, and then he and his family are going to New Zealand.
	www.wsusignpost.com /news/2005/01/21/Sports/Going.beyond.The.Void.With.Simon.Yates-2109570.shtml (625 words)

	Simon Yates Tour Dates & Tickets
		Mountaineer Simon Yates is best known for being the man who cut the rope holding him to Joe Simpson, memorably documented Joe's book (and now film), Touching The Void.
		Simon has nearly two decades of climbing experience all over the world, and has scaled some of the world's most stunning peaks.
		Sorry - we don't have any Simon Yates tour dates listed in the UK at the moment, but we can send you an immediate email as soon as we hear of more.
	www.ents24.com /web/artist/69436/Simon_Yates.html (143 words)

	Rock Climbing Forums: Climbing Information: General: joe simpson vs simon yates
		I have been climbing a while when I read touching the void, and I don't think simon yates was wrong to cut the rope.
		yates said in a intervue i watched that he didn't know if simpson was 1 foot or 100 feet off the ground.
		I really doubt Yates had a handfull of pickets or deadman's in his pack...and even if he did I don't think they'd have been too easy to put in, and tie off to while holding your partner on a 60 degree slope.
	www.rockclimbing.com /cgi-bin/forum/gforum.cgi?post=1193698 (1042 words)

	Simon Yates - Moviefone
		Simon Yates (born 1963) is a British mountaineer made famous by the book...
		Simon started to study biochemistry, however gave that up to become a full time...
		Simon Yates was immortalised in the film and book Touching the Void the now legendary story of Joe Simpson a mountain climber who shattered his leg on the...
	movies.aol.com /celebrity/simon-yates/373907/main (107 words)

	Touching the Void
		In June, 1985, British mountain climbers Joe Simpson (21) and Simon Yates (25) became the first people ever to make their way up to the top of the 21,000 foot Siula Grande peak in the Peruvian Andes via the mountain's nearly 90 degree west face.
		This is not only a documentation of what happened, recording how this bleak scenario almost cost Simpson and Yates their lives, but is also a profound meditation on death and hopelessness; an examination, in both climbers, of the human drive to survive that not even they quite understand.
		But beyond the obvious, we are witness to Yates’ much-criticized thought process at the point of cutting the rope, Simpson’s desperation in his icy tomb, Yates’ haunted journey down the mountain alone, and Simpson’s mental determination, with a broken leg, to make a journey that has become climbing legend.
	movies.zertinet.com /2004/touchingthevoid.htm (1267 words)

	BBC SPORT \| GOLF \| Yates hits peak form
		Former downhill skier Simon Yates took a share of the third-round lead at the Macau Open on Saturday.
		Yates once represented his native Scotland on the snow but swapped his skis for clubs in 1989.
		Yates, who now lives in Thailand, believes a 67 on Sunday will be good enough to hand him his first victory since the Sabah Masters three years ago.
	news.bbc.co.uk /sport1/hi/golf/1314184.stm (503 words)

	Heason Events Portfolio Simon Yates
		Born in Leicestershire in 1963 Simon Yates studied Biochemistry before abandoning a conventional life to pursue climbing.
		In a career spanning twenty years Simon’s climbing and travelling has taken him from Alaska in the west to Australia in the east, from the Canadian Arctic in the north to the tip of South America.
		Simon has lectured to both general and outdoor enthusiast audiences here in the UK and abroad in Australia, Canada, Denmark, Holland, Italy, India and Sweden.
	www.heason.net /HTML/PortfolioDetail/HeasonEventsLecturerPortfolioDetailSimonYates.htm (656 words)

	SIMON YATES, 2003 DUNHILL LINKS CHAMPIONSHIP OF SCOTLAND, Golf, Interviews, Quotes, ASAPSports FastScripts, Transcript (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		SIMON YATES: I thought about qualifying for the European Tour but it just doesn't interest me. I just have a great condo out there, a great condo on the beach.
		SIMON YATES: You know it's a funny story, my dad was a good golfer, he was a scratch.
		SIMON YATES: No. 1, I hit it to the right side of the green and made a 40-footer.
	www.asapsports.com /golf/2003dunhill/092503SY.html (1372 words)

	The Advisory Court Ltd (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Simon is a consultant with Yates and Co. in Chester.
		Simon offers a broad range of fee based financial planning advice and works closely with other professionals including solicitors and accountants, inn order to ensure that mutual clients receive the very best advice, He is well placed to advice on the more complex areas of pensions and inheritance tax planning.
		Yates and Co is an appointed representative of Sesame Ltd, which is authorised and regulated by the Financial Services Authority.
	www.theadvisorycourt.com /simonyates.html (176 words)

	Touching the Void - Preview - Trailers - Reviews - Photo Gallery \| Moviecentre.net (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The only complication was that Yates had to stop after each 150 feet and signal for Simpson to give him enough slack so that he could get the knot past his harness.
		Simon hung onto the rope for an hour, with his strength ebbing away and Joe's weight on the rope slowly pulling him towards the edge of the cliff.
		Eventually Simon realized he was faced with an unthinkable dilemma: he could hang on to the rope until they were both pulled off the mountain.
	www.moviecentre.net /upcomingmovies/preview/63.php (740 words)

	Simon Yates passes $1m on Asian Tour
		Scotsman Simon Yates' 10-year love affair with Asia has propelled him to become only the fourth golfer to join the elite million-dollar club in career earnings.
		Yates, who finished third on last year's Order of Merit, broke through the seven-figure barrier with a tied 33rd finish in the Asian Tour's previous stop in Singapore.
		Yates, nicknamed the "Wee Man" by his peers, will tee off at Saujana Golf and Country Club this week in the US$1.21 million Carlsberg Malaysian Open looking for another sparkling show.
	www.golftoday.co.uk /news/yeartodate/news05/yates.html (475 words)

	SIMON YATES, JOHNNIE WALKER CLASSIC, Golf, Interviews, ASAPSports FastScripts, Quotes, Transcript (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		SIMON YATES: Yeah, I played the tournament last time I think it was -- well, no I played this tournament a while ago, missed the cut.
		SIMON YATES: Yeah, I went to the school a long time ago when I was working in Germany, I think it was 1994.
		SIMON YATES: Been out here since -- I came on holiday near 1993 and basically went to the Tour School in '95 here, the Asian Tour School in '95 and played out here ever since.
	www.asapsports.com /golf2/2004jwalker/013104SY.html (813 words)

	Touching the void - Nicholas Aaron, Brendan Mackey, Simon Yates, Joe Simpson, Kevin Macdonald - CIA
		In June, 1985, British mountain climbers Joe Simpson (21) and Simon Yates (25) became the first people ever to make their way up to the top of the 6400 metre Siula Grande peak in the Peruvian Andes via the mountain's nearly 90 degree west face.
		An attempt to lower Simpson down the nearly 90° face of the mountain went awry, and Yates was forced to make a tough decision to cut Simpson's line in order to prevent them from both falling to their dooms.
		Simon left his friend for dead without a second thought, without checking if he was alive or not.
	thecia.com.au /reviews/t/touching-the-void.shtml (1079 words)

	Amazon.ca: Touching the Void: DVD: Kevin MacDonald,Brendan Mackey,Joe Simpson,Simon Yates,Nicholas Aaron,Richard Hawking (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The brief details of the climb of Joe Simpson and Simon Yates is that their ascent is relatively straight forward despite the mountain being more technically difficult than they had expected.
		At this point, matters deteriorated further when Yates was forced to cut their connecting rope when Simpson had fallen over a cliff and was in danger of dragging his partner with him.
		Their climb to the summit was standard mountaineering fare, but after Yates breaks his leg on the way down (the film interestingly notes that 80% of injuries occur during the descent), the remainder of the film had me cringing and wincing from the sheer horror of what Yates had to overcome to survive.
	www.amazon.ca /Touching-Void-Kevin-MacDonald/dp/B00020X94W (2557 words)

	Courage Under Pressure: Joe Simpson on his climbing partner Simon Yates
		Joe says that climbers may criticize Simon's choice to cut the rope, but he believes his partner made the right choice in the end.
		"People go on about Simon cutting the rope, but what was extraordinary was that he did a single-handed mountain rescue at a huge risk to his life for about 10 hours," Joe says.
		...Simon had the choice not to save me. He did this incredible rescue, nearly killed himself on so many occasions, and then right at the end was forced to cut the rope.
	www.oprah.com /tows/slide/200404/20040430/tows_slide_20040430_03.jhtml (227 words)

	Touching the Void (2003): Nicholas Aaron, Brendan Mackey, Joe Simpson, Simon Yates - PopMatters Film Review
		While Simpson and Yates returned to the site for the making of the film, it is clear in interviews published and aired since production that even at that time, some 18 years after the trauma, their experiences remain dissimilar.
		And so, while Simon admits that he thought, for a brief second, that he would be better able to make his descent if Joe was not a factor, he never meant to leave behind a man who was alive; thinking Joe was dead, he cut the rope.
		As Simpson and Yates speak about their experiences, you realize that each can only tell so much, that his understanding of his partner's or even his own experience at that time can't be comprehensive or settled.
	www.popmatters.com /film/reviews/t/touching-the-void.shtml (936 words)

	Simon Yates and Sharon Anyos in conversation :: ABC Queensland
		Simon Yates and Sharon Anyos in conversation :: ABC Queensland
		Simon Yates was not happy with the film and has since distanced himself from it.
		Simon Yates is the author of Against the Wall andThe Flame of Adventure.
	www.abc.net.au /queensland/stories/s1312266.htm (362 words)

	Simon Yates pulls two shots clear - UBS Hong Kong Open (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Simon Yates, a Glaswegian based in Thailand for the past decade, stormed into the lead with a stunning course record of nine-under-par 61 at the revered Hong Kong Golf Club and opened up a two-shot advantage over his more illustrious compatriot Montgomerie, who battled to a 66.
		Yates, a two-time winner on the Asian Tour, nearly holed in one as well on the eighth to win a BMW car but his tee shot struck the pin and stayed out of the cup.
		With a new putting grip, Yates rolled in a 12-footer on 10 and nailed a wedge to four feet at the short par three 12th for another birdie before finishing off in a flourish with four threes.
	www.golftoday.co.uk /tours/2005/UBS_Hong_Kong_Open/round3report.html (1148 words)

	Chessler Books :: AGAINST THE WALL. 1st edition. SIGNED by Simon Yates. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Yates will be forever known as the man who cut the rope in Touching the Void.
		The author of this book is the man who cut the rope in Joe Simpson's award-winning account of their struggle for survival in 'Touching the Void'.
		Afterwards, while Simpson recuperated from multiple leg injuries, Yates continued mountaineering on the hardest routes, perhaps the most testing of which was the world's largest vertical rock-face, towering 4000 feet above the eastern face of Paine in Chile.
	www.chesslerbooks.com /eCart/viewItem.asp?idProduct=4352 (181 words)

	Amazon.com: Touching the Void: DVD: Brendan Mackey,Nicholas Aaron,Ollie Ryall,Simon Yates,Joe Simpson (II),Richard ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		His partner, Simon Yates, who was in endangered of being pull down with his danging partner, decided to cut the rope to save himself - act that amazingly cost him much reputation as well as a sense of personal guilt.
		Yates and Simpson narrated the movie while it was being "reenacted" at the actual terrain and mountain.
		Nicholas Aaron as Simon Yates, Joe Simpson as Himself, Simon Yates as Himself, Ollie Ryall as Richard Hawking, Richard Hawking as Himself, Nicholas Aaron as Simon Yates, Joe Simpson as Himself, Simon Yates as Himself, Ollie Ryall as Richard Hawking, Richard Hawking as Himself...
	www.amazon.com /Touching-Void-Brendan-Mackey/dp/B00020X94W (2115 words)

	Simon Yates wary of Jeev, Randhawa in Volvo Masters of Asia
		Simon Yates wary of Jeev, Randhawa in Volvo Masters of Asia
		The superlative form of Jeev Milkha Singh and Jyoti Randhawa has clearly left their peers in awe and Simon Yates, two-time winner on the Asian Tour, rates the Indian duo as the players to beat in next month's 650,000 dollar Volvo Masters of Asia at Thai Country Club here.
		On his chances, Yates is hoping that some inside knowledge will help him finish an injury-interrupted year on a high note at Asian Tour’s season-ending event from December 14-17.
	news.webindia123.com /news/articles/Sports/20061128/520625.html (410 words)

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