Alex Honnold is a world-class American rock climber best known for his free solo ascents of big walls. David Roberts (1943–2021) is the author of thirty books on mountaineering, exploration, and anthropology. His books have won the Boardman Tasker Award for Mountain Literature and the Grand Prize at the Banff Mountain Book Competition.
"Honnold blows wide open any conventional understanding of the term
‘comfort zone.’…He engagingly conveys his love of climbing."
*Barbara J. King - NPR*
"[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."
*Wall Street Journal*
"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."
*People*
"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 - New York Times Magazine*
"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 - Outside*
"Alex is really the first climber to rise from the margins of this
lonely fringe sport to become a kind of celebrity."
*Josh Dean - Men's Health*
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