Alex Honnold

Alone on the Wall

Alex Honnold and the Ultimate Limits of Adventure

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Alex Honnold is perhaps the world's best 'free-solo' climber, scaling impossible rock faces without ropes, pitons or support of any kind. There is a purity to Alex's climbs that is easy to comprehend, but impossible to fathom; in the last forty years, only a handful of climbers have pushed 'free soloing' to the razor-edge of risk. Half of them are dead. From Yosemite's famous Half Dome to the frighteningly difficult El Sendero Luminoso in Mexico, Alone on the Wall is structured around Alex's seven most extraordinary climbing achievements so far. These are tales to make your palms sweat and your feet curl from vertigo. We get to the heart of h… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Roberts, David

ISBN: 978-1-5290-3442-4
EAN: 9781529034424
Produktnummer: 31867493
Verlag: Pan macmillan Ltd.
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
Seitenangabe: 320 S.
Ausstattung: B-Format Paperback
Masse: H19.8 cm x B13.1 cm x D2.2 cm 253 g
Gewicht: 253
Sonstiges: Ab 18 J.

Über den Autor

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. Alex is the subject of the BAFTA and Oscar winning film Free Solo.David Roberts is the author of Alone on the Ice and co-author, with Conrad Anker, of The Lost Explorer, about the discovery of George Mallory's body on Mt. Everest.