{"id":146134,"date":"2021-01-15T10:53:15","date_gmt":"2021-01-15T10:53:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/codengine3.ch\/?product=import-placeholder-for-207800"},"modified":"2021-08-17T16:56:05","modified_gmt":"2021-08-17T14:56:05","slug":"the-impossible-climb","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/pizbube.ch\/en\/shop\/the-impossible-climb\/","title":{"rendered":"The Impossible Climb"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"value\">Alex Honnold, El Capitan and the Climbing Life<\/span><\/p>\n<p>On June 3rd 2017 veteran adventure journalist and professional climber Mark<br \/>\nSynnott was in Yosemite to witness something that only a handful of people<br \/>\nknew was about to occur: the most famous climber in the world, Alex Honnold,<br \/>\nwas going to attempt to summit one of the world&#8217;s most challenging ascents, a<br \/>\nroute called Freerider on the notorious rock formation El Capitan. It is a<br \/>\nclimb extraordinarily dangerous and difficult, and yet Honnold was going to do<br \/>\nit &#171;free solo&#187;.<\/p>\n<p>Meaning no help. No climbing partner. No equipment. No rope. Where a single<br \/>\nsmall mistake would mean certain death. To most, it would be an insane<br \/>\nproposition. But most are not Alex Honnold, and few know this better than Mark<br \/>\nSynnott, which is why National Geographic sent him there to cover the story.<\/p>\n<p>In The Impossible Climb, Mark Synnott uses his own career as a professional<br \/>\nclimber, its intersection with that of Alex Honnold and the lead-up to<br \/>\nHonnold&#8217;s historic ascent, to paint a insider portrait of the elite climbing<br \/>\ncommunity, exploring what motivates them, the paradoxical drive to keep the<br \/>\nsport pure and at the same time to fund climbs, and the role that awareness of<br \/>\nmortality plays in the endeavour.<\/p>\n<p>We watch through Mark&#8217;s eyes as Alex plots, trains and attempts his heart-<br \/>\nstopping free-solo ascent. Ultimately this is a story not only about climbing<br \/>\nbut about what makes us human, how we respond to fear and our drive to<br \/>\ntranscend the inevitability of death.<\/p>\n<p>Paperback Edition, 2020<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alex Honnold, El Capitan and the Climbing Life On June 3rd 2017 veteran adventure journalist and professional climber Mark Synnott was in Yosemite to witness something that only a handful of people knew was about to occur: the most famous climber in the world, Alex Honnold, was going to attempt to summit one of the [&#8230;]\n","protected":false},"featured_media":158300,"template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[21542],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-146134","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-sachbuecher-dokumentationen","7":"pa_autor-synnott","8":"pa_erscheinungsjahr-21558","9":"pa_region-amerika-nord","10":"pa_sprache-en","12":"first","13":"instock","14":"taxable","15":"shipping-taxable","16":"purchasable","17":"product-type-simple"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pizbube.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/146134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pizbube.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pizbube.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pizbube.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/158300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pizbube.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pizbube.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=146134"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pizbube.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=146134"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pizbube.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=146134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}