The impossible climb : Alex Honnold, El Capitan, and a climber's life / by Mark Synnott ; adapted for young readers by Hampton Synnott.
Material type:
TextPublisher: New York : Viking, 2021Edition: [Young readers adaptation]Description: vii, 215 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: - text
- still image
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780593203927
- 0593203925
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Dr. James Carlson Library | Children's Biography | HONNOLD, A. S993 | Available | 33111009792827 | ||||
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Main Library | Children's Biography | HONNOLD, A. S993 | Available | 33111010480479 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
A middle grade adaptation of the adult bestseller that chronicles what The New York Times deemed "one of the great athletic feats of any kind, ever": Alex Honnold's free-solo ascent of El Capitan in Yosemite National Park.
On June 3, 2017, as seen in the Oscar-winning documentary Free Solo , Alex Honnold achieved what most had written off as unattainable: a 3,000-foot vertical climb of El Capitan in Yosemite National Park, without a rope or harness. At the time, only a few knew what he was attempting to do, but after topping out at 9:28 am, having spent just under four hours on this historic feat, author Mark Synnott broke the story for National Geographic and the world watched in awe.
Now adapted for a younger audience, The Impossible Climb tells the gripping story of how a quiet kid from Sacramento, California, grew up to capture the attention of the entire globe by redefining the limits of human potential through hard work, discipline, and a deep respect for the natural world.
"This work is based on The Impossible Climb: Alex Honnold, El Capitan, and the Climbing Life, by Mark Synnott, copyright ©2018 by Mark Synnott, published by Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC"--Title page verso
Recounts Alex Honnold's unprecedented solo climb of Yosemite's El Capitan, describing the feat along with the other climbing expeditions that populated his amateur and professional experiences.