Saturday, Feb. 2
• Jackson-based big-wall climber and writer Mark Synnott’s second book, “The Impossible Climb: Alex Honnold, El Capitan and the Climbing Life,” will be published by Dutton on March 5. The book tells the story of Honnold’s unprecedented 3,000-foot “free solo” climb up El Capitan in Yosemite, without a rope or safety gear on June 3, 2017.
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