http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/may/24/mountaineer-joe-simpson-twitter-row
Even the most successful authors have to suffer the occasional fit of spite from critics and readers. Few, however, have to contend with the twin indignities of being branded a "crevasse wanker" and having their accounts of preternatural mountain endurance rubbished by sulky teens.
Fortunately, as befits a man who has outshuffled the Grim Reaper in both the Andes and the Himalayas – and who chose an automated alcohol dispenser as his luxury on Desert Island Discs so that he could drink himself to death rather than endure a protracted insular exile – Joe Simpson is not the sort to sulk.
Best though is from his twitter:
http://twitter.com/#!/touchingthevoidhttp://twitter.com/#!/touchingthevoid