Alex Honnold is one of the world's best ‘free solo’ climbers. He scales impossible rock faces without ropes, pitons or any support of any kind. In Alone on the Wall, he takes you with him.
‘Riveting’ - Jon Krakauer, bestselling author of Into the Wild
This edition includes the account of Alex's El Capitan climb, subject of the Oscar and BAFTA-winning documentary, Free Solo.
Exhilarating, brilliant and dangerous, there is a purity to Alex's climbs that is easy to comprehend, but also impossible to fathom. In the last forty years, only a handful of climbers have pushed themselves as far, ‘free soloing’ to the absolute limit of human capabilities.
Half of them are dead.
From Yosemite's famous Half Dome to the terrifying heights of El Sendero Luminoso in Mexico,
Product details
Publisher : Pan; Main Market edition (14 Nov. 2019)
Language : English
Paperback : 320 pages
ISBN-10 : 1529034426
ISBN-13 : 978-1529034424
Reading age : 18 years and up
Dimensions : 13 x 2 x 19.7 cm
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