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Alex Honnold books: every book Alex Honnold wrote and recommended
Across 3 podcasts. Every show Alex Honnold appears on, in one place — not just one.
Books by Alex Honnold
Alex Honnold’s most recommended books
- Free solo by Roberto Vaiana
- Accidents in North American Mountaineering by Jed Williamson
- Energy by Vaclav Smil
- Energy and Civilization by Vaclav Smil
- Seven Summits by Dick Bass
- The Better World Shopping Guide by Ellis Jones
- The China Study by T. Colin Campbell
- Thrive Fitness by Brendan Brazier
Alexander J Honnold is an American rock climber best known for his free solo ascents of big wall climbing routes. Honnold rose to worldwide fame in June 2017 when he became the first person to free solo a full climbing route on El Capitan in Yosemite National Park via the 880-metre (2,900 ft) big-wall route known as Freerider at the technical grade of 5.13a, which was the first-ever big-wall free-solo ascent at that grade, a climb described in The New York Times as "one of the great athletic feats of any kind, ever". Honnold discussed several books and related media in his podcast interviews. On On Purpose with Jay Shetty, he mentioned the documentary film Free Solo while discussing viewer reactions to his brain scans, his mindset before his climb of El Capitan, and his relationship with his wife. On The Rich Roll Podcast, he mentioned reading books like T. Colin Campbell's The China Study and Brendan Brazier's Thrive Fitness when discussing his transition to a vegetarian diet and plant-based nutrition. On The Joe Rogan Experience, he brought up the annual publication Accidents in North American Mountaineering to discuss climbing accidents and how their causes are analyzed.
Books recommended by Alex Honnold
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Free solo
Free Solo is a gripping documentary film directed by Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin that chronicles professional rock climber Alex Honnold's historic, unroped ascent of El Capitan in Yosemite National Park.
Discussed“It's a shame cuz there's a scene in Free Solo, you know, they show a little clip from that where and basically everyone watching the movie comes out of it like, 'Well, there's something wrong with his brain.'”
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Accidents in North American Mountaineering
Discussed“accidents in North American mountaineering and it's just a list of every accident that happened over the year and they have analysis and causes and you know I mean some accidents you read”
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Energy
Discussed“I just finished this book "Energy and Civilization," this like Vaclav Smil's, like this super dense tome about sort of the progression of different energy systems in human civilization.”
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Energy and Civilization
Discussed“I just finished this book "Energy and Civilization," this like Vaclav Smil's, like this super dense tome about sort of the progression of different energy systems in human civilization.”
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Seven Summits
Discussed“I don't know if you've ever read the book, "The Seven Summits" by Dick Bass. He was the first person-”
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The Better World Shopping Guide
Discussed“my sister actually many years ago before I started my foundation, before I started any of this stuff, she gave me this book called "The Better World Shopping Guide," which I think is out of print now but at the time was this incredible resource where for any consumer product, including banking and things like that, you could flip through”
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The China Study
The China Study by T.
Discussed“I mean kind of all the classic like China study type things I don't know like yeah thrive the Brendan Fraser”
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Thrive Fitness
Thrive Fitness by Brendan Brazier is a resource focused on plant-based nutrition and fitness.
Discussed“thrive the Brendan Fraser oh yeah actually I don't think I've actually read your book it's funny I was reading through all the different diet books I've read and I was like I don't think I'll give you a copy yeah yeah brant Brendan lives right up the street”
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Appearances
Other mentions (2: passing, ad reads, own books)
“this older guy Hans Florine who actually wrote the book how to speed climb that I learned how to speed from from many years ago”
“so like I published a book a few years ago and so there's an advance from that”