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Alex Honnold ha poco più di trent'anni ed è il miglior climber in "free solo" del mondo. Scala la roccia a mani nude, senza corde, chiodi o attrezzature di alcun tipo. Negli ultimi quarant'anni, solo una manciata di alpinisti ha spinto questa disciplina così al limite. La metà di loro è morta. Honnold ha aperto vie che prima erano ritenute inaccessibili e ha alzato l'asticella delle difficoltà a livelli mai visti. Dal celebre Half Dome nello Yosemite Park allo spaventoso El Sendero Luminoso in Messico, questo libro raccoglie alcuni dei più incredibili successi di arrampicata conseguiti da Honnold finora. Storie che fanno sudare le mani e tremare le ginocchia per le vertigini. Storie che, pagina dopo pagina, parete dopo parete, mostrano come - e perché - Alex fa quello che fa. Emozionante e profondo, Nel vuoto rivela la purezza di un uomo che vive in bilico sul crinale della vita e, guardando in faccia la morte, scala alla ricerca del senso ultimo dell'esistenza.
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- Pagine: 262
- Data di uscita: 28-08-2018
Recensioni
Ok, this may be sacrilegious in the climbing community (of which, I am a part), but this book made me dislike a climber I thought I would actually like. There is no doubt that Honnold is an extremely gifted athlete who dares to do things with rock that even the plates and all of their tectonics woul Leggi tutto
4.5 rounded down since there's no glossary of terms Alex uses like "send the gnar," "worked," "beta," not to mention all the minute variations in rock like a "smear." But otherwise I flowed over these pages (had them pretty much dialed/couldn’t put it down) like Alex over a 3000-foot granite slab. R Leggi tutto
Last book to finish on Madeira holiday. Watching YouTube clips of Dan Osman some years back doing insane speed free climbing enticed me to this book. Unfortunately, he took one risk too many and fell to his death. I had also read and enjoyed the Jon Krakauer book ‘Into Thin Air.’ Alex Honnold’s free s Leggi tutto
Coming into the book, I thought Alex Honnold was a pretty amazing person not just for his climbing ability but for his storytelling, humor, modesty, philanthropy and indifference to fame but politeness to the enthusiastic fans who seek out selfies with him at events. But this book made me feel diffe Leggi tutto
My inner adventurer has been satiated - after reading this book I watched the documentary Free Solo about Alex's climb of El Capitan. And even knowing how it turned how, it was hard to watch!! I like knowing that climbing without ropes is not an adventurist lark or seeking a thrill. He does so much
This book is very difficult to rate. There were moments that I was eating it up and times I had to drag myself through the pages (and it's not even that long of a book). In the end, I was really frustrated with people praising Alex and then also saying he was whiny. Every time this was "talked" abou Leggi tutto
In case you have been living under a rock for the past decade, or maybe more aptly for a book about the climbing world, in case you HAVEN'T been living under a rock, Alex Honnold is a famous rock climber who free solos. That is to say he climbs impossibly tall slabs of granite. Without a rope. For f Leggi tutto
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