The Push: A Climber’s Journey of Endurance, Risk and Going Beyond Limits to Climb the Dawn Wall

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THE STORY BEHIND THE HARDEST CLIMB IN HISTORY & ACCLAIMED DOCUMENTARY ”DAWN WALL”

”Heart-stopping, absorbing” Daily Mail
”The most daring free climber on the planet” The Times
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In 2015, climber Tommy Caldwell took on the hardest challenge of his life, spending 19 days freeclimbing Yosemite”s vertical, 3000-foot Dawn Wall – regarded as the most difficult climb in history and a route nobody had ever done before.

This odds-defying feat was the culmination of seven years planning and a lifetime of determination.

Here, he recounts how he got there, the falls and setbacks – being held hostage, losing his index finger, the break-up of his marriage – the summits conquered and the fears overcome.

Fans of Free Solo and Dawn Wall, and climbers and non-climbers alike, will be gripped by this story of drive, focus and achieving the impossible.
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”The Push is not simply a book about rock climbing” Guardian

”Probably the greatest living athlete most people have never heard of” Telegraph

”Arguably the best all-round rock climber on the planet” National Geographic

”A real page-turner . . . captivating and deeply moving” Climb magazine

”Captivating and unfailingly honest” Jon Krakauer, author of Into the Wild and Into Thin Air