TY  - BOOK
AU  - Synnott,Mark
TI  - The impossible climb: a personal history of a perfect thing 
SN  - 9781101986646
AV  - GV199.92.H67 S96 2018
U1  - 796.522092B 23
PY  - 2018///]
CY  - New York, New York
PB  - Dutton
KW  - Honnold, Alex.
KW  - Mountaineers
KW  - United States
KW  - Biography
KW  - Free climbing
KW  - California
KW  - El Capitan
N1  - The Hon is going to freesolo El Cap -- Crazy kids of America -- A vision of the stone masters' lightning -- Stone monkey -- Crashing the gravy train on the vertical mile --  The secret weapon, Mr. safety, and Jimmy Chin -- Non-profit -- Secret dawn walls -- Alex's amygdala -- The source -- "Her attitude is awesome ..." -- Fun
N2  - "One slip, one false move, one missed toehold, and you're dead. Alex Honnold, the #1 free solo climber in the world, chose the route known as Freerider on Yosemite's El Capitan, a series of pitches so hard that it's newsworthy when someone free climbs it with a rope. No one had ever 'free soloed' it before; only a few people have ever even contemplated it. That four-hour climb on June 3, 2017, was, simply, one of the boldest feats in human history. At the same time, it was almost unbearable to watch--as Mark Synnott did"--
ER  -