攀岩人生 – The Push: A Climber’s Journey of Endurance, Risk, and Going Beyond Limits by Tommy Caldwell

汤米·考德威尔以相当诚实的方式分享了自己成长与冒险的旅程，你可以从无数细节中看到自己的影子：少年汤米的手足无措、尴尬青春；青年汤米在成人世界里经历的猜忌、迷茫、失败；到最后探索未知的自我， 放开心胸让自己成长，学会与他人分享。如今已经40多岁的汤米，人生经历十分传奇，被恐怖分子挟持、被迫杀人、惨遭断指、不幸婚变，但每多碰到一次挫折，就多一分坚定的意志。他把目光放在无数人心目中那项“不可能的任务”上——光滑如镜、垂直高度900多米的绝壁“黎明墙”。他必须依靠几微米的皮肤接触，几毫米的岩石边缘，脑海中千万个动作，并以无懈可击的精确度执行才能成功。历时7年时间，汤米最终完成了这项壮举，重新定义了攀岩这项运动，也拓展了生命的可能性。

这本书写的不仅仅是攀岩，而是我们普通人都会经历的渴望与恐惧、纠结与挣扎，展示了人类最高水平的努力、永远无法磨灭的精神和决心。

A New York Times Bestseller

A dramatic, inspiring memoir by legendary rock climber Tommy Caldwell, the first person to free climb the Dawn Wall of Yosemite’s El Capitan 

“The rarest of adventure reads: It thrills with colorful details of courage and perseverance, but it enriches readers with an absolutely captivating glimpse into how a simple yet unwavering resolve can turn adversity into reward.” (The Denver Post)

A finalist for the Boardman Tasker Award for Mountain Literature

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 19 days on the route. Caldwell’s odds-defying feat – the subject of the documentary film The Dawn Wall to be released nationwide in September – 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 20s, 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. This epic assault took more than seven years, during which time Caldwell redefined the sport, found love again, and became a father. 

The Push is an arresting story of focus, drive, motivation, endurance, and transformation, a book that will appeal to anyone seeking to overcome fear and doubt, cultivate perseverance, turn failure into growth, and find connection with family and with the natural world.

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