He is an internationally certified mountain guide and member of The North Face athlete team.
Honnold's daring ascent inspired Synnott's best-selling book The Impossible Climb, a part memoir, part historical account of climbing history and the ground-breaking first free solo of El Capitan.
[3] In 2021, Synnott published The Third Pole, documenting his 2019 expedition with Renan Ozturk to search for the body of Sandy Irvine on Mount Everest.
[5] One such first ascent was climbing Mount Weiassipu, Guyana on an expedition where he led a team of climbers including Alex Honnold to the top of the tepui to help Dr Bruce Means find new species of frogs.
Their journey was documented in Explorer: The Last Tepui by National Geographic and was released on Disney+ on Friday 22 April 2022.