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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 ...
Climber Alex Honnold has been dreaming of free-soloing the 3,000 feet (900 m) rock wall of El Capitan in Yosemite National Park, a feat no one has performed.His choice of big wall climbing route on El Capitan is called Freerider, a route that was created by Alexander Huber in 1998, and which Honnold has completed several times with protection equipment.
Alex Honnold was the first to free solo El Cap entirely on June 3 of 2017. ... The oldest woman to climb El Capitan is Dierdre Wolownick, mother to Alex Honnold, ...
Freerider is a popular route up El Capitan, the same one taken by Alex Honnold when he climbed the rockface without ropes or harnesses in the Oscar-winning documentary “Free Solo.”
Alex Honnold climbing El Capitan without a rope. The underwater rescue of 12 Thai boys from the Tham Luang Nang Non cave. Three elite mountaineers summiting Mount Meru — just shortly after one ...
Alex Honnold, the subject of "Free Solo" (2018), climbing on El Capitan's Freerider in Yosemite National Park. - Jimmy Chin/National Geographic/Jimmy Chin.
Free Solo, a 2018 documentary film about Alex Honnold's free solo climb of Freerider 5.13a (7c+) on El Capitan. King Lines , a 2007 documentary film about Chris Sharma , featuring his free solo climb of the DWS route, Es Pontàs 9a+ (5.15a), in Mallorca .
He enlisted friend and fellow climber Alex Honnold, famed for his free solo ascent of Yosemite’s El Capitan, to join him on a comeback climb. The trip would see the duo aim to become the first ...