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I just could not get into the story, much of the first several chapters revolved around the author's own childhood with side yarns about other rock climbing guys (yea, pretty much all dudes) in the 70's and 80's. The book is well written and Mark Synnott did a great job telling the story and immersing the reader into the climbing culture.Obviously an amazing chapter in climbing history but the narrator wasn’t familiar with many climbing terms, like how to pronounce ‘alpinist’ and ‘alpinism’.

That said, if I was a climber who didn’t know about all of his exploits it would be a lot more interesting. Later, Sanni McCandless fancies him at a book talk, moves in on him, and is the heroine of the 'Free Solo' film. The experience of free soloing is not a rollercoaster-type rush of pure excitement, Honnold tells us. Peter Croft once explained the feeling you get from free soloing as a heightened type of perception. I definitely found that it enhanced the book but the book alone is an incredible experience that tells the story of Alex honnold in great detail.

If Synnott’s own generation has an enduring question, it’s how to balance the solitary ethos of climbing with the demands of an audience hungry for co It swings into its themes with the sudden abruptness of Yosemite granite: from forest floor to vertical rock in a single step. I ended up not finishing and skipping around since overall, I ended up with an actual dislike for Alex, the main subject. David Roberts (1943–2021) is the author of thirty books on mountaineering, exploration, and anthropology.

Alex Honnold comes closer to offering this intangible quality than any other sportsman has in any autobiography I’ve yet read. A veteran of the North Face climbing team and contributor to National Geographic, Synnott weaves in his own amateur and professional experiences with poignant insight and wit. Non-climbers, even people who aren’t outdoorsy, are aware of him, mainly from the commercials he’s appeared in, his National Geographic cover story about soloing Half Dome, and most of all, from the 60 Minutes feature that put him into the public spotlight in 2011.Anyone interested in tedious descriptions of climbing films Alex has been in from the co-author, or a few quotes from him and others (often taken from magazines) spun up into pages on uneventful sponsored climbing trips or other mishaps? He speaks to them, to his peers, with inclusion of the argot of our sport and detailed specifics on his climbs, but he also defines his jargon and offers an open enough framing of climbing to be inviting to non-climber readers. While Synnott points out that Honnold has a personalized "risk calculus" in his climbing, due to his training and practice, but despite that, there are always inherent risks in anything we do.