Alone on the Wall: Alex Honnold and the Ultimate Limits of Adventure

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Alex Honnold (born August 17, 1985) is an American rock climber best known for his free solo ascents of big walls. The sources validating these mentions are linked next to each book for transparency and to provide our users with the context in which Alex Honnold referred to the book. As good as the film Free Solo was, this book really shows Honnold as a deep thinker, and as a refreshingly honest and considerate individual, not as glib has he can sometimes appear on camera. 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.

That’s just what happens to your body and your mind when you’re focused intensely on the feedback you’re getting from the environment and there are no other distractions. What we want is 'Free Solo', 2018, the Oscar winning documentary by directors and cameras Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin. Honnold via the sketches of his climbs and his wholehearted efforts to answer the question he has admitted he’s quite tired of being ask— do you fear falling and dying while free soloing? Followed by another step up, and a few thousand more – to make a climb that changes our whole idea of what climbers can climb.It took 47 days to climb it the first time, and it was considered amongst the community of climbers that a ‘free solo’ attempt would be so far beyond human limits and endurance that it was virtually impossible. It is clear that Mark Synnott knows the climbing world, but this book lost me early on and never regained its footing.

However, most readers here probably would rather understand the book and somewhat the man who wrote it than those things.

Got a little less interested in the narrative in the third quarter of the book, but over and all really enjoyed it. The Impossible Climb, isn't just about men or women climbing a mountain, no this is about El Capitan, a sheer rock formation 3,000 feet from base to summit, many have tried to climb and have. The book is well written and Mark Synnott did a great job telling the story and immersing the reader into the climbing culture.