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On June 3rd, 2017, Alex Honnold became the first person to free solo Yosemite's El Capitan - to scale the wall without rope, a partner, or any protective gear - completing what was described as "the greatest feat of pure rock climbing in the history of the sport" ( National Geographic) and "one of the great athletic feats of any kind, ever" ( New York Times). Their earlier documentary 'Meru' is about their own climbing – they met Alex not on any north face, but on the North Face brand development programme. Deciding not to dump Sanni even when her inattention to the rope causes him an injury that costs him half a season's climbing.
stars for the other half of the book, wherein the author talks extensively about his own climbing past, hero-worships a bunch of jerks, smears another climber in a highly biased recounting of a particular trip, and fetishizes an intentionally nameless Malaysian woman. Get ready to sweat your hands and feet, and be delighted throughout the pages of this excellent, excellent book and recount of one of the major feats of the human spirit by Alex Honnold’s free solo of El Cap. pitches so full of variety: the downclimb at Pitch 14; the Monster Offwidth, 60m high, too wide for handjams and too narrow to squirm inside; the crux at the Boulder Problem just where it should be at Pitch 23; above that the Enduro Corners, long laybacking on exhausted arms, and the hand traverse at Pitch 27 with the 900m of empty space underneath, the 30 metres of E1. Why do something where beyond much question, any wrong move or simple mishap could lead to certain death? In the climbing community he is highly respected, and regarded as one of the greats, both as a person, and as a climber.I loved how this book went back and forth between Alex’s inner thoughts and feelings, and someone else relaying the comments from the public and the climbing community. 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. I ended up not finishing and skipping around since overall, I ended up with an actual dislike for Alex, the main subject.
Indeed, there's a very brief point where the story gets weird, and one reviewer has fixated on that strange passage, reading the rest of the book in light of the gendered elements of this fleeting moment in the narrative. Our goal is to provide readers with an authentic insight into the reading preferences of influential individuals. Upon completion there is both the sense of accomplishment, but also the heightened senses from the "fight or flight" response triggered by fear and the gravity of what you are attempting. No one within the cloistered community of climbing nor to the general public’s view of the sport is a bigger star right now than Alex Honnold, a man who has in a multitude of ways raised the bar on what is even possible in climbing.
His expeditions and climbs are inspiring in their own right, but the life he's lived outside of climbing is maybe more impressive. Yes, I recommend this book: it's an honest and uncompromising account not only of the climbing life, but of how that life has changed over the decades. With many great places to climb within the scope of northern California, Honnold couldn’t see the prospects of an engineering degree from Cal outweighing the chance to spend limitless time pursuing climbing, so he dropped out of one of the most-respected of American universities and set off on the road in a old van which would become his home and base of operations as he encountered climbing routes which challenged even the most experienced and hardy of veteran climbers. There's a World of books to choose from such as: Children's Books, Range includes Baby Books (0-3), Books for Toddlers (3-5), Early Readers (5-7), Childrens Story books (7-11), Young Teens (11-14), Young Adults (14-16) and Childrens Educational Books.
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