Alone on the Wall - Softcover

Honnold, Alex; Roberts, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0393353176 ISBN 13: 9780393353174

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, 2017

Synopsis

Free solo climbing is a high-stakes sport: if you fall, you die. Expert free soloist Alex Honnold isn't afraid to push the limit; one of the most famous adventure athletes in the world, he has pioneered new routes, won awards, and shattered records. Alone on the Wall recounts the seven most astonishing achievements of Honnold's extraordinary life and career, brimming with lessons on living fearlessly, taking risks, and maintaining focus even in the face of extreme danger.

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Review:

Honnold is the biggest name in a group of adventure athletes engaging in high-risk live action-sports spectacles that seem to be pulled from the Evel Knievel playbook.--Grayson Schaffer

Honnold has free-soloed the longest, most challenging climbs ever. Most peculiar of all, even to elite rock climbers, Honnold does this without apparent fear, as if falling were not possible.--Daniel Duane

Alex is really the first climber to rise from the margins of this lonely fringe sport to become a kind of celebrity.--Josh Dean

Honnold blows wide open any conventional understanding of the term 'comfort zone.'...He engagingly conveys his love of climbing.--Barbara J. King

[Honnold] is the foremost practitioner of the dark art of free solo rock climbing--ascending extremely difficult cliffs hundreds, sometimes thousands, of feet tall without ropes or protection hardware of any kind. That is every bit as stupefying as it sounds.

Honnold here recounts his ascents on some of the world's most dangerous rock walls. You'll come away questioning his sanity for choosing this controversial sport...But it's also impossible not to feel awe.

Book Description:

The palm-sweating terrifying memoir of the world's greatest free-solo climber, Alex Honnold

About this edition

• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 0393353176
• ISBN 13: 9780393353174
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272