

Alone on the Wall
Author: Alex Honnold
Narrator: Andrew Eiden, Will Damron
Unabridged: 7 hr 13 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Published: 11/09/2015
Author: Alex Honnold
Narrator: Andrew Eiden, Will Damron
Unabridged: 7 hr 13 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Published: 11/09/2015
Alex Honnold is a world-class American rock climber best known for his free-solo ascents of big walls.
David Roberts is the author of twenty-nine books about mountaineering, exploration, and Western history and anthropology, including The Lost World of the Old Ones.
Andrew Eiden, an Earphones Award–winning narrator, is an actor and voice artist. He has been acting since the age of four, working at regional theaters including La Mirada Theatre, the Glendale Center Theatre, and the Pasadena Playhouse. He has starred in dozens of national commercials, guest-spotted on numerous television shows, and has been a series regular on three programs: Discovery Channel’s Outward Bound, Disney Channel’s Movie Surfers, and most notably ABC’s Complete Savages
Will Damron is an Earphones Award–winning audiobook narrator and actor who has appeared off Broadway and on stage and screen throughout the country.
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......more
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......more
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......more
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......more
“Alex Honnold’s climbing feats are astonishing. They are also absolutely horrifying. Reading about some of his ascents made me physically ill. As this riveting book makes clear, however, Honnold is neither crazy nor reckless. Alone on the Wall reveals him to be an utterly unique and extremely appealing young man.” Jon Krakauer, New York Times bestselling author
“Mortal danger, by choice…Honnold blows wide open any conventional understanding of the term ‘comfort zone.’" NPR
“[Honnold] is the foremost practitioner of the dark art of free solo rock climbing…That is every bit as stupefying as it sounds.” Wall Street Journal
“Alex is really the first climber to rise from the margins of this lonely fringe sport to become a kind of celebrity.” Men’s Health
“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.” Outside
“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.” New York Times Magazine
“Alone on the Wall is a celebration of nonthinking. As he surveys the greatest accomplishments of his career, Honnold reviews his ascents in meticulous, technical detail…During the climb itself, suspended in air, at times hanging by the tip of a single finger, he experiences no fear…Honnold’s ability to ignore the higher questions—to ignore death—is not part of the reason for his success. It’s the entire reason. It’s also the source of his allure.” Atlantic Monthly
“The likable Honnold…downplay[s] his successes while sharing climbing tactics and, more pointedly, how he manages fear in the face of such singular danger.” Booklist
“The humility, pioneering spirit, and courage that are the author’s personal hallmarks are both refreshing and invigorating…An inspiringly intense memoir for readers of adventure lit.” Kirkus Reviews