The Impossible Climb: Alex Honnold, El Capitan, and the Climbing Life Audiobook (Free)

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A deeply reported insider perspective of Alex Honnold’s historic achievement and the culture and history of climbing.

“Probably one of the most compelling accounts of the climb and the climbing ethos that I’ve ever go through.”-Sebastian Junger

In Mark Synnott’s exclusive window in the ethos of climbing, his friend Alex Honnold’s astonishing free solo ascent of Un Capitan’s 3,000 ft of sheer about The Impossible Climb: Alex Honnold, Un Capitan, as well as the Climbing Existence granite is the central act. When Honnold topped out at 9:28 A.M. on June 3, 2017, having spent fewer than four hours on his historic ascent, the world gave a collective gasp. The New York Times referred to it as “among the great athletic feats of any kind, ever.” Synnott’s personal history of his very own obsession with climbing since he was a teenager-through professional climbing triumphs and defeats, as well as the dilemmas they render-makes this a deeply reported, enchanting revelation about living life towards the fullest. What are we performing if no impossible climb?

Synnott delves right into a raggedy culture that emerged years previously during Yosemite’s Golden Age group, when pioneering climbers like Royal Robbins and Warren Harding invented the activity that Honnold would start its ear. Painting a geniune, wry family portrait of climbing history and profiling Yosemite heroes as well as the harlequin tribes of climbers referred to as the Stonemasters and the Rock Monkeys, Synnott weaves in his own encounters with poignant insight and wit: tensions burst over the mile-high northwest encounter of Pakistan’s Great Trango Tower; fellow climber Jimmy Chin miraculously persuades the official in the Borneo jungle to permit Honnold’s first foreign expedition, led by Synnott, to keep; armed bandits accost the same trio on the foot of a tower in the Chad desert .

The Impossible Climb can be an emotional dilemma driven by people exploring the limits of human potential and seeking an ideal, choreographed dance with nature. Honnold dared far beyond the normal, beyond any climber in history. But this tale of sublime heights is actually about all of us. Who doesn’t have to face down fear and take full advantage of the time we have?