Alone on the Wall - Softcover

Honnold is the biggest name in a group of adventure athletes engaging in high-risk live action-sports spectacles that seem to be pulled from the Evel Knievel playbook.--Grayson Schaffer

Honnold has free-soloed the longest, most challenging climbs ever. Most peculiar of all, even to elite rock climbers, Honnold does this without apparent fear, as if falling were not possible.--Daniel Duane

Alex is really the first climber to rise from the margins of this lonely fringe sport to become a kind of celebrity.--Josh Dean

Honnold blows wide open any conventional understanding of the term 'comfort zone.'...He engagingly conveys his love of climbing.--Barbara J. King

[Honnold] is the foremost practitioner of the dark art of free solo rock climbing--ascending extremely difficult cliffs hundreds, sometimes thousands, of feet tall without ropes or protection hardware of any kind. That is every bit as stupefying as it sounds.

Honnold here recounts his ascents on some of the world's most dangerous rock walls. You'll come away questioning his sanity for choosing this controversial sport...But it's also impossible not to feel awe.

The extreme climber famed for his solo ascents without ropes, partners, or gear describes his seven most significant achievements, including a free-solo climb up Mexico's Sendero Luminoso and the Fitz Traverse ascent in Patagonia.