The Push
  • Published: 29 June 2017
  • ISBN: 9781405924757
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 400

The Push

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

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Paperback
16 Jul 2018
EBook
29 Jun 2017
Audiobook
19 Apr 2018
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A climber's journey of endurance, risk and going beyond limits

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.
  • Published: 29 June 2017
  • ISBN: 9781405924757
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 400
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Praise for The Push

The Push is the most insightful book about climbing I've ever read, and quite possibly the most enjoyable. The writing is consistently captivating and unfailingly honest

- Jon Krakauer, bestselling author of Into the Wild and Into Thin Air

If you want to be inspired by a great leader, if you want to feel what it takes to do what no one thought possible, if you want to be absorbed by a heroic journey--Tommy Caldwell's story is one of the best you could ever hope to find

Jim Collins, bestselling author of Good to Great

Probably the greatest living athlete most people have never heard of

Telegraph

Exquisitely detailed ... The Push achieves the rarest of adventure reads: it thrills with colourful details of courage and perseverance but it enriches readers with an absolutely captivating glimpse of how a simple yet unwavering resolve can turn adversity into reward ... Caldwell is not just unflinchingly forthright in The Push, but his writing flows with the grace that defines his climbing ... While Caldwell excels at vividly illuminating his exploits - descriptions of climbs, his awe of nature, the physical challenges - his writing shines brightest as he examines his inner life ... he shows that pursuing a life pursuing adventure should inspire anyone

Denver Post

You always know that Caldwell's going to make it to the top of that 3,000-foot hunk of Yosemite granite. The book's raw honesty helps it transcend the hackneyed sports-autobiography genre

Outside

Totally captivating . . . beautifully constructed and passionately written

Climber Magazine

A real page-turner . . . captivating and deeply moving

Climb Magazine

The most daring free climber on the planet

The Times

The authenticity is compelling, the stories inspiring . . . impossible to put down.

Sarah Ryan, Trail

Whilst undeniably a book about climbing, it manages to be more than that . . . Perhaps the most gripping moments in the book happen away from climbing altogether . . . One of the most insightful climbing books of recent times, The Push comes highly recommended.

Trek & Mountain

BOOK OF THE WEEK . . . heart-stopping, absorbing

Daily Mail

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