The Push
A Climber’s Journey of Endurance, Risk, and Going Beyond Limits
From THE PUSH by Tommy Caldwell. Summarized by arrangement with Viking, an imprint of Penguin Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
ISBN: 9780399562709
Pages: 336
Recommendation
If you rock climb, you’ve probably heard of champion Tommy Caldwell, but you don’t have to be a climber to appreciate his thoughtful memoir. Though the sport is central to his narrative, he uses rock climbing as a vehicle to explore perseverance, passion, physical challenges and, in his case, perhaps the slight madness that excellence demands. He touches on love; belonging; family; romance; the media fallout after militants in Kyrgyzstan held him hostage; technology’s influence on fame and sports; what it meant to his climbing to lose one of his fingers in an accident; and how he finally attained a daunting life goal: free climbing the Dawn Wall of Yosemite’s El Capitan mountain. getAbstract recommends his saga to readers who take pleasure in accounts of skill and dedication and who appreciate an example of how to become a champion through practice, hard work and perseverance.
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About the Author
A professional rock climber who continues to break climbing records, Tommy Caldwell lives in Estes Park, Colorado, with his wife Becca and their two children.
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