THE IMPOSSIBLE CLIMB by Mark Synnott, read by Mark Deakins
A personal history of Synnott’s obsession with climbing since he was a teenager—through professional climbing triumphs and defeats. Alex Honnold’s “free solo” ascent of El Capitan is the central act he uses to explore the ethos of climbing.
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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. Mark Deakins paints an authentic, wry portrait of climbing history and profiles Yosemite heroes and the international climbers who explore the limits of human potential. Published by Penguin Audio.
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