In a recent post ‘Jim Perrin comes out’ we quoted from an article we have read on the site ‘To Hatch a Crow’ which we think shows how Jim Perrin’s spite, and jealousy of Joe Simpson and his phenomenal success* seems to have tipped him over the edge of rational behaviour.
For him to have accused Joe Simpson of lying — who had written in Touching the Void of the desperate circumstances in which he and his climbing partner, Simon Yates, found themselves — was truly foolish. And (to add to the malevolent mix) to ‘recall’ the opinion of an orthopaedic friend, anonymous and in our view almost certainly imaginary, as well as claiming that many mountaineers also thought Joe Simpson’s story questionable — was all part of Jim Perrin’s risible attempt to belittle his reputation. Continue reading