The Push A Climber's Journey of Endurance, Risk, and Going Beyond Limits |
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| Author:
| Caldwell, Tommy |
| ISBN: | 978-0-7181-8340-0 |
| Publication Date: | May 2017 |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books, Limited
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| Imprint: | Michael Joseph |
| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | AUD $35.00 |
Book Description:
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In January 2015 Tommy Caldwell and Kevin Jorgeson achieved the 'impossible'. Over three weeks they made their way up the forbidding, 3000-foot-high south-west face of El Capitan. It was a climb that Caldwell, after losing a finger in a domestic accident, had been told he had no hope of achieving. Yet conquering El Capitan represented the end of a difficult recovery from the trauma of being held hostage by rebels during an earlier climbing expedition to Kyrgyzstan....
More DescriptionIn January 2015 Tommy Caldwell and Kevin Jorgeson achieved the 'impossible'. Over three weeks they made their way up the forbidding, 3000-foot-high south-west face of El Capitan. It was a climb that Caldwell, after losing a finger in a domestic accident, had been told he had no hope of achieving.
Yet conquering El Capitan represented the end of a difficult recovery from the trauma of being held hostage by rebels during an earlier climbing expedition to Kyrgyzstan.
Much more than an account of a single, monumental climb, Pushlooks set to join the classics of the genre.