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The Alpinist is a 2021 American documentary film directed by Peter Mortimer and Nick Rosen about Marc-André Leclerc, a free-spirited and little-known 23-year-old Canadian rock climber, ice climber, and alpinist.
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 ...
After feeding the collective fear of heights with “Free Solo,” climber Alex Honnold sets his sights on tackling one of the highest unclimbed cliff faces on the planet, while delivering a ...
An eclectic crew made the first ascents of a 3,750-foot 5.11- X and a 1,500-foot 5.12c while collecting data to inform climate-change scientists.
In July 2021, Hojac featured in the film The Soloist VR, where he assisted Alex Honnold in free solo climbs across the Alps and Dolomites. [6] The film later won an award at the Cannes Film Festival. [7] On September 9, 2023, Hojac, along with Adrian Zurbrügg, completed the Schreckmarathon in 18 hours and 52 minutes.
Alex Honnold’s Latest Absurdity, the HURT, is the Real Deal. Maury Birdwell. October 26, 2022 at 1:07 PM. ... A year and a half earlier, while driving to Yosemite in April of 2021, ...
'Free Solo' star Alex Honnold saw the effects of climate change in his climbing career. He started the Honnold Foundation to invest in solar energy.
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 ...