This is, of course, a venerable narrative strategy, but it's relatively novel in the 'climbing and mountaineering' genre. to be clear, I don't mean these as criticisms: I've said some of these things myself, more than a few times. Our goal is to provide readers with an authentic insight into the reading preferences of influential individuals. From Yosemite's famous Half Dome to the frighteningly difficult El Sendero Luminoso in Mexico, Alone on the Wall explores Alex's seven most extraordinary climbing achievements so far.

He provides the actuality of things, the fact that climbing—free soloing included therein—is a process that requires concentration and nimble movements but also moves its athlete into a zone of understanding, into a channel where the immediate outweighs all before and after it. Obviously an amazing chapter in climbing history but the narrator wasn’t familiar with many climbing terms, like how to pronounce ‘alpinist’ and ‘alpinism’.Not just what provides the courage to climb unprotected, at risk to fall and die at most any moment, but what paved the way for that tremendous development of athleticism? Written by an accomplished fellow climber, this story of the historic rope-free climb of Yosemite's El Capitan by Alex Honnold is fascinating and full of interesting info about the technical aspects of the climb, as well as the climbing world in general. It's also worth saying that Jim Collins, besides being the best selling business author of all time or something like that, has also free soloed The Naked Edge (5 pitch 5.

The culture and history of climbing are discussed as well as some of the ethical dilemmas of being a climber, filming a climber, and how celebrity introduces a complexity to the sport.A central event of the book is Alex Honnold’s free solo of El Capitan, but Synnott includes many of climbing’s most central personalities and their respective adventures.

Alex was famous for being able to "put fear in a box and set it on an out-of-the-way shelf in the back of his mind. You become an instinctive animal rather than a person trying to do a hard climb, and that perception doesn’t immediately go away when you get to the top. A2) Devils Thumb, Alaska – Second traverse of the range; completed in under 24 hours with Tommy Caldwell.He doesn’t indulge in drugs or alcohol, and has funneled much of his sponsorship dollars into a non-profit, the Honnold Foundation, aimed at improving people’s lives through sustainability. For further information about your statutory rights, contact your local authority Trading Standards department or consumer advice center (for example the Citizen's Advice Bureau if you are in the UK).