He once cut his injured climbing partner loose over an icy cliff to save himself in an terrifying episode later turned into award-winning film.Now, nearly 40 years later, Simon Yates has survived another near-catastrophe – plunging 300ft down a precipice on a 20,000ft mountain this summer.Mr Yates, whose decision to cut a rope sending Joe Simpson hundreds of feet into a ravine in Peru in 1985 gripped viewers of 2003 film Touching The Void, suffered his latest brush with death in Tajikistan in July.
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