New York, 2002, 1st edition. 270 pp, color photos. Hardcover with dust jacket. There is no writing in the book or other flaws, except there is a lean to the book. The dust jacket has no tears or chips and is not price clipped. The Dust Jacket is protected by a removable clear plastic book cover that we call a Brodart, they are the makers of the book covers. The Dust Jacket and the Book are in Near Fine condition.
This is Lynn's autobiography [who else can write their her or his story at age 40?) the story of the world's best, and best known, female rock climber. Lynn Hill describes her famous free climb of El Capitan's Nose in Yosemite, she meditates on how she harnesses the strength and courage to push herself to such extremes, tells of her near-fatal 80-ft fall, her youth as a Hollywood stunt artist, her friendships with climbing's most colorful personalities, and the tragedies and triumphs of her life in the vertical world.
Lynn Hill began climbing when she was 14, in 1970, scampering up a rock face while her companions turned away in exhaustion; by 1994, she had done something no other climber had ever done: made a free ascent of El Capitan's hideously challenging Nose. That's 3,000 feet of granite, straight up. This autobiography, written with veteran climber and author Greg Child, is a must-read for fans of sport climbing (which is very different, Hill explains, from mountaineering).
Naturally, she hits all the high spots in a career filled with them: El Capitan and Joshua Tree in Yosemite National Park, Granite Mountain in Arizona, Nevada's Heart of Darkness, the Gunks in New York, and the ominously named Suicide Rocks in California.
Carolynn Marie Hill has climbed them all, and plenty more. In the world of sport climbing, she's a superstar, and yet, unlike many autobiographies written by superstars, this book contains not a trace of ego or pretension. She is an ordinary person with an extraordinary gift. Her story, which could have been aggressively self-promoting, is instead quietly inspiring.
