Push, The: A Climber's Journey

This dramatic and inspiring memoir comes from legendary rock climber Tommy Caldwell, the first person to free climb the nearly vertical 3000 foot Dawn Wall of Yosemite's El Capitan. Chronicalling the journey of a boy with a fanatical mountain-guide father, Tommy's ambition drove him to the top of the sport-climinb circuit ad then on to the vertigo-inducing and little understood world of free climbing. Here he recounting his journey and the hardships and triumphs which defined his life.