Climbing Free: My Life in the Vertical World - Hardcover

Lynn Hill; Greg Child

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0393049817 ISBN 13: 9780393049817

Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc, 2002

Synopsis

The memoirs of the woman rock climber who was the first person to accomplish a "free ascent" of the Nose on Yosemite's El Capitan describe her early days as a Hollywood stunt artist, friendships with other climbers, near-fatal eighty-foot fall, and personal strategies. 35,000 first printing.

About this title

About the Author:

Lynn Hill has been featured in Life, Vanity Fair, Outside, Time, National Geographic, and in the recent IMAX film Extreme. She lives in Boulder, Colorado. Greg Child is a world-class mountaineer and the author of several books on climbing. He lives near Moab, Utah.

From Booklist:

Hill began climbing when she was 14, in 1970, scampering up a rock face while her companions turned away in exhaustion; by 1994, she had done something no other climber had ever done: made a free ascent of El Capitan's hideously challenging Nose. That's 3,000 feet of granite, straight up. This autobiography, written with veteran climber and author Child, is a must-read for fans of sport climbing (which is very different, Hill explains, from mountaineering). Naturally, she hits all the high spots in a career filled with them: El Capitan and Joshua Tree in Yosemite National Park, Granite Mountain in Arizona, Nevada's Heart of Darkness, the Gunks in New Jersey, and the ominously named Suicide Rocks in California. Hill has climbed them all, and plenty more. In the world of sport climbing, she's a superstar, and yet, unlike many autobiographies written by superstars, this book contains not a trace of ego or pretension. She is an ordinary person with an extraordinary gift; her story, which could have been aggressively self-promoting, is instead quietly inspiring. David Pitt
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About this edition

• Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0393049817
• ISBN 13: 9780393049817
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 270