E32 - #31 How Cutting the Rope Can Save Your Business (Touching the Void by Joe Simpson)

In May of 1985, two young British climbers: Joe Simpson, age 25, and Simon Yates, age 21 they set out to do something no one had ever done: climb the West Face of Siula Grande, a 21,000-foot peak in the remote Peruvian Andes. No sponsors. No film crew. No rescue team. Just two guys, their gear, and a 4,500-foot wall of ice going almost straight up.

They made the summit. And that's when everything fell apart.

On the descent, Joe fell and shattered his leg, the impact driving the bones of his lower leg straight up through his...