β Maira Dawn
π Fiction
π
2019
π English
β 92 KB
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β¦ LIBER β¦
The Impossible Climb
β Scribed by Mark Synnott
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group
- Year
- 2019
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 3 MB
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
**If you loved watching Free Solo, you'll be enthralled by Mark Synnott's deeply reported, insider perspective.
"One of the most compelling accounts of a climb and the climbing ethos that I've ever read."
--Sebastian Junger
**In Mark Synnott's unique window on the ethos of climbing, his friend Alex Honnold's astonishing "free solo" ascent of El Capitan's 3,000 feet of sheer 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 described it as "one of the great athletic feats of any kind, ever." Synnott's personal history of his own obsession with climbing since he was a teenager--through professional climbing triumphs and defeats, and the dilemmas they render--makes this a deeply reported, enchanting revelation about living life to the fullest. What are we doing if not an impossible climb?
Synnott delves into a...
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