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Free Solo is a 2018 American documentary film directed by Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin [4] that profiles rock climber Alex Honnold on his quest to perform the first-ever free solo climb of a route on El Capitan, in Yosemite National Park in California, in June 2017.
The ongoing actors strike, in which Hollywood's film and television actors are fighting for fair contracts with major entertainment companies like Netflix has made the rollout of “Nyad” a ...
Since their film “Free Solo” won the Oscar in 2019 for best documentary feature, the pair have worked with Nat Geo on several nonfiction projects including “The Rescue” and most recently ...
Academy Award-winning documentary directors Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin (a subject of their first doc, “Meru”) are familiar with telling high-stakes stories of incredible human feats.
Alex Honnold (born August 17, 1985) is an American rock climber best known for his free solo ascents of big walls.Honnold rose to worldwide fame in June 2017 when he became the first person to free solo a full route on El Capitan in Yosemite National Park (via the 2,900-foot route Freerider at 5.13a, the first-ever big wall free solo ascent at that grade), [3] a climb described in The New York ...
Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi (/ ˌ v ɑː s ə ˈ r ɛ l i / VAH-sə-REL-ee; [1] born 1977 or 1978) [2] is an American documentary filmmaker. She was the director, along with her husband, Jimmy Chin, for the film Free Solo, which won the 2019 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.
The past decade has seen the release of some of the best sports documentaries of all time, including The Last Dance, O.J.: Made in America, and Free Solo, all of which racked up critical acclaim ...
Jerry Moffatt free-soloing L'Horla at Curbar Edge. Free solo climbing (sometimes referred to as soloing in the UK, or third-classing in the US), [6] is where the climber uses no climbing protection whatsoever (and as with all free climbing, no form of climbing aid is used either); [6] they may only use their climbing shoes and climbing chalk to ascend a single-pitch, or a multi-pitch/big wall ...