The Impossible Climb: Alex Honnold, El Capitan, and the Climbing Life: Audiobook
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, The Impossible Climb: Alex Honnold, El Capitan, and the Climbing Life runs 13 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Mark Deakins (about 8.7 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 13 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 26 days |
| 1 hour / day | 13 days |
| 2 hours / day | 7 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 9 days |
You'll finish in – by –
Part of The Audiobook Finish-Time Calculator: the same instrument for any audiobook we measure.
What our data says
- At 13 hours, it runs longer than 89% of the 20,332 Non-Fiction audiobooks in our catalog.
More narrated by Mark Deakins
Mark Deakins narrates 93 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 1,074 hours in all.
About as long, on the Non-Fiction shelf
1,704 Non-Fiction audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:
Computed from 170,512 English-language unabridged audiobooks in The Books Insider catalog (store data read October 21, 2026). Lengths are the store's own running times. Methodology.
About this listen
The Impossible Climb: Alex Honnold, El Capitan, and the Climbing Life is an audiobook by Mark Synnott: a 13-hour unabridged recording, read by Mark Deakins, released March 5, 2019, on the Non-Fiction shelf.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 13 hrs
- Narrated by
- Mark Deakins
- Released
- March 5, 2019
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Non-Fiction
- ISBN
- 9780525594352
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is The Impossible Climb: Alex Honnold, El Capitan, and the Climbing Life as an audiobook?
The Impossible Climb: Alex Honnold, El Capitan, and the Climbing Life runs 13 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 8.7 hours.
Is The Impossible Climb: Alex Honnold, El Capitan, and the Climbing Life free as an audiobook?
Yes, for new listeners: the trial starts you with three free audiobooks.
Who narrates The Impossible Climb: Alex Honnold, El Capitan, and the Climbing Life?
The Impossible Climb: Alex Honnold, El Capitan, and the Climbing Life is narrated by Mark Deakins.
Is The Impossible Climb: Alex Honnold, El Capitan, and the Climbing Life worth listening to at 1.5× speed?
At 1.5× you'd finish in about 8.7 hours, saving 4.3 hours.