The impossible climb Alex Honnold, El Capitan, and the climbing life
"One slip, one false move, one missed toehold, and you're dead. Alex Honnold, the #1 free solo climber in the world, chose the route known as Freerider on Yosemite's El Capitan, a series of pitches so hard that it's newsworthy when someone free climbs it with a rope. No one had e...
| Main Author: | Synnott, Mark (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York, New York :
Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC,
[2018]
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| Summary: |
"One slip, one false move, one missed toehold, and you're dead. Alex Honnold, the #1 free solo climber in the world, chose the route known as Freerider on Yosemite's El Capitan, a series of pitches so hard that it's newsworthy when someone free climbs it with a rope. No one had ever 'free soloed' it before; only a few people have ever even contemplated it. That four-hour climb on June 3, 2017, was, simply, one of the boldest feats in human history. At the same time, it was almost unbearable to watch--as Mark Synnott did"-- |
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| Physical Description: |
viii, 405 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm |
| ISBN: |
9781101986646 1101986646 |
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