ALONE ON THE WALL

Alex is one of the most elite practitioners of soloing: no ropes, no hardware, no belay, just a climber, shoes, and a bag of chalk.

There is no margin for error, a fall would prove fatal. His ascents are legendary and record-breaking, and his feats are considered to be at the very edge of possibility even among his cohort of friends and competitors in the climbing world. As famous as any other extreme athlete in the world today after multiple media profiles, commercial appearances, lecture tours, and sponsorship deals Alex is recognized wherever he climbs. The combination of talent and attention in such a death-defying endeavour might suggest a young man of towering self-importance, even arrogance, and yet Alex is thoughtful, modest, enormously careful, and sweetly considerate. He still lives part of the year in a beat-up van, and used the first real money he ever earned to establish a humanitarian foundation. Rather than a straight memoir Alex Honnold he will describe seven of his most extraordinary climbs, from planning through execution, climbs that in their aggregate have entirely transformed the boundaries of the sport. Watch this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Phl82D57P58 Jon Krakauer says about Alex Honnold, “He’s utterly genuine. There’s no bullshit there.”