INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLERNEW YORK TIMES MONTHLY BESTSELLEROne of the 10 Best Books of March--Paste Magazine A deeply reported, insider perspective of Alex Honnold\'s historic achievement and the culture and history of climbing.
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The Impossible Climb is an emotional drama driven by people exploring the limits of human potential and seeking a perfect, choreographed dance with nature.
Painting an authentic, wry portrait of Climbing history and profiling Yosemite heroes and the harlequin tribes of climbers known as the Stonemasters and the Stone Monkeys, Synnott weaves in his own experiences with poignant insight and wit: tensions burst on the mile-high northwest face of Pakistan\'s Great Trango Tower; fellow climber Jimmy Chin miraculously persuades an official in the Borneo jungle to allow Honnold\'s first foreign expedition, led by Synnott, to continue; armed bandits accost the same trio at the foot of a tower in the Chad desert...
What are we doing if not an Impossible climb? Synnott delves into a raggedy culture that emerged decades earlier during Yosemite\'s Golden Age, when pioneering climbers like Royal Robbins and Warren Harding invented the sport that Honnold would turn on its ear.
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. on June 3, 2017, having spent fewer than four hours on his historic ascent, the world gave a collective gasp.
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When Honnold topped out at 9: 28 A. "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.
INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLERNEW YORK TIMES MONTHLY BESTSELLEROne of the 10 Best Books of March--Paste Magazine A deeply reported, insider perspective of Alex Honnold\'s historic achievement and the culture and history of climbing
