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Learn how to apply lessons from the vertical world to the horizontal world we work, play, and live in. Discover how your attitude and approach to speed applies to everything, from changing diapers to loan closings. Hans Florine is the King of Speed, with three gold medals in the ESPN XGAME'S, 12 national titles, and the first world championship in speed climbing.

Hans Florine is a big-wall climbing legend in his own time. He holds the speed record on the Nose route of El Capitan, a 3,000-foot granite cliff in Yosemite Valley that's considered the Everest of the rock-climbing world. But Florine's story is not one of super-human athletic prowess; it's one of persistence and dogged determination. In 30 years of climbing, he's ascended the Nose a mind-blowing, death-defying 100 times, more than anyone else ever has, and most likely ever will. In On the Nose, Florine describes the most dangerous, pivotal, and inspirational of those climbs.