Tommy Caldwell Libri

A dramatic, inspiring memoir by legendary rock climber Tommy Caldwell, the first person to free climb the Dawn Wall of Yosemite's El Capitan. On January 14, 2015, Tommy Caldwell, along with his partner, Kevin Jorgeson, summited what is widely regarded as the hardest climb in history Yosemite's nearly vertical 3,000-foot Dawn Wall, after nineteen days on the route. Caldwell's odds-defying feat was the culmination of an entire lifetime of pushing himself to his limits as an athlete. This engrossing memoir chronicles the journey of a boy with a fanatical mountain-guide father who was determined to instill toughness in his son to a teen whose obsessive nature drove him to the top of the sport-climbing circuit. Caldwell's affinity for adventure then led him to the vertigo-inducing and little understood world of big wall free climbing. But his evolution as a climber was not without challenges; in his early twenties, he was held hostage by militants in a harrowing ordeal in the mountains of Kyrgyzstan. Soon after, he lost his left index finger in an accident. Later his wife, and main climbing partner, left him. Caldwell emerged from these hardships with a renewed sense of purpose and determination. He set his sights on free climbing El Capitan's biggest, steepest, blankest face the Dawn Wall.

Tommy Caldwell ist der Star unter den Kletterern und einer der besten Allrounder der Szene. Mit der Durchsteigung der »Dawn Wall« gelang ihm 2015 zusammen mit Kevin Jorgeson eine Sensation. Mitreißend berichtet der sympathische Ausnahmeathlet in diesem Buch von der Faszination des Freikletterns, er schildert die traumatische Geiselnahme, in die er 2000 in Kirgistan verwickelt wurde, und offenbart Persönliches: wie sein Vater ihn mit Fanatismus an den Extremsport heranführte, wie er den Verlust seines linken Zeigefingers verkraftete und wie die Geburt seines ersten Kindes sein Verständnis von Verantwortung und Risikobereitschaft verändert hat.