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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.
Free solo climbing, or free soloing, is a form of rock climbing where the climber ... Alex Honnold's famous 2017 free solo of the big wall route, Freerider (5.13a, ...
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 ...
The fearless American free soloist brought climbing into the limelight, and upped the risk ante so high it may never be surpassed. Alex Honnold, Free Soloist, Star of Academy-Award-Winning ...
Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin’s “Free Solo,” a National Geographic documentary about Alex Honnold’s attempt to climb Yosemite’s El Capitan rock formation without any ropes or ...
In 2008 Alex Honnold, after a few rehearsals, made the first free solo ascent, via the 5.12a variations, in 2 hours and 50 minutes. [ 11 ] Over the Fourth of July Weekend in 2015, a major rockfall occurred on the Regular Northwest Face, severely altering pitches 10 and 11. [ 12 ]
Climber Alex Honnold's feat--ascending the 3,000-foot rock face of Yosemite's El Capitan without ropes--is one of those spectacular human achievements that almost defy belief. But photographic ...