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The Push

byTommy Caldwell

A Climber's Journey of Endurance, Risk and Going Beyond Limits to Climb the Dawn Wall

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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 made history and was one 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, The Push looks set to join the classics of the genre.

A genuine achievement in its own right . . . Caldwell's voice comes through clearly in passages of well crafted prose . . . The Push is not simply a book about rock climbing

Guardian

About Tommy Caldwell

Tommy Caldwell grew up in Colorado. He has made dozens of notable ascents, and many consider him the best all-around rock climber in the world. In 2014 he was chosen as one of National Geographic's Adventurers of the Year, and in 2015 the American Alpine Club awarded him Lifetime Honorary Membership, its highest honor. Caldwell, a frequent contributor to Alpinist, Climbing, and Rock and Ice magazines, lives in the town where he first learned to climb, Estes Park, Colorado, with his wife and their son and daughter.
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  • Imprint: Penguin
  • ISBN: 9781405924757
  • Length: 400 pages
  • Price: £5.99
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