Mountaineer laughs off Twitter row with 'spotty schoolkids'

Joe Simpson gets involved in scuffle with the line vile GCSE students after refusing his book Touching the Void

Even the most successful authors have to suffer the occasional adjustment, despite the critics and readers. Few, however, face the twin indignities of being labeled a "crack asshole" and that his accounts of supernatural endurance mountain rejected by sulky teenagers.

Fortunately, as befits a man who outshuffled the Grim Reaper, in the Andes and the Himalayas - and you chose an automatic alcohol as their island discs luxury desert for that it can drink to the death before enduring a long exile island -. Joe Simpson is not the kind of moody

When a gang of GCSE students used Twitter to steam that has been done to study the account of how Simpson has spent days crawling of a Peruvian mountain with a broken leg, he decided Free to participate with their teenagers.

Question

to know why he chose to call the book Touching the Void, the new Twitter: "I did not want to piss off to have children to do tests on it"

His answer did not impress his companion, who answered. "I bet you know more about how he focuses on the first chapter of what they do"

"I just write shit," came the reply.

Not all tweets he received were very nice.

"Your book is crap and you should feel bad," wrote one. "Three chapters trace of it inspires me to write about your book in my review," confessed one other. "It was pretty boring really."

other correspondents were even more direct: "Your book is the reason why my whole year Our English test failure," shouted one. "LEARNING TO WRITE FOOL illiterate!"

far more lively exchange Simpson was a young Turkish English study.

• "I wrote a few months ago. I said I had a review of his book, "said his plaintive tweet." Thank you. You owe me! "

Interestingly, Simpson's response - "No, you're just garbage in English" - could not fix things

"I am a student to learn English," shot him. "But you are a fool who fell in the mountains. We expect Turkey! "

Wednesday evening, however, the author seems to be tired of the abuse and Twitter: "A great day for children squirm in their trash hormonal hell ... good night's vile can innocent you could boil the bile acid ... "
Despite the tone of the tweets, Simpson told the Guardian that he had actually found a lot of fun. "If I am brutally frank about it," he said, "I do not really care what people think what they think I did. Nobody had the idea first, really.

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