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Alone on the wall / Alex Honnold with David Roberts.

Alone on the wall / Alex Honnold with David Roberts.
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796.522 HONN
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ISBN 9781447282730 (paperback)
1447282736 (paperback)
Name Honnold, Alex author.
Title Alone on the wall / Alex Honnold with David Roberts.
Published London : Pan Books, 2016.
©2015
Description 248 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : colour illustrations ; 20 cm
Notes Includes index.
Originally published: 2015.
Summary A twelve-year-old kid in the audience raised his hand and asked, 'Aren't you afraid you're gonna die?' Without missing a beat, Alex shot back, 'We've all gotta die sometimes. You might as well go big.' Alex Honnold is 28 years old, and perhaps the world's best 'free solo' climber, scaling impossible rock faces without ropes, pitons or and support of any kind. There is a purity to Alex's climbs that is easy to comprehend, but impossible to fathom; in the last forty years, only a handful of climbers have pushed 'free soloing' to the razor edge of risk. Half of them are dead. From Yosemite's famous Half Dome to the frighteningly difficult El Sendero Luminoso in Mexico, Alone on the Wall is structured around Alex's seven most extraordinary climbing achievements so far. These are tales to make your palms sweat and your feet curl with vertigo. Together, they get to the heart of how - and why - Alex does what he does. Exciting, uplifting and truly awe-inspiring, Alone on the Wall is a book about the essential truths of risk and reward, and the ability to maintain a singular focus, even in the face of extreme danger.
Subjects Honnold, Alex
Rock climbing
Other Names Roberts, David, 1943- author.
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