The palm-sweating terrifying memoir of the world's greatest free-solo climber, Alex Honnold
Alex 'No Big Deal' Honnold is a professional rock climber whose
audacious free-solo ascents have made him one of the most
recognized and followed climbers in the world. Honnold has been
profiled by 60 Minutes and the New York Times, featured on the
cover of National Geographic, and has starred in numerous adventure
films, including the Emmy-nominated Alone on the Wall. He is also
the founder of the Honnold Foundation, an environmental
not-for-profit charity that seeks simple, sustainable ways to
improve lives around the world.
David Roberts is co-author, with Conrad Anker, of The Lost
Explorer, about the discovery of George Mallory's body on Mt.
Everest. His most recent book is Alone on the Ice (Norton, 2013).
[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 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.
*New York Times*
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