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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 (which is sometimes just called soloing in the UK, or third-classing in the US), [6] is where the climber uses no climbing aids (as per all free-climbing), but in addition, uses no form of climbing protection whatsover. [6] The free solo climber may only use their climbing shoes and climbing chalk as they ascend the climbing ...
'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. 'Free Solo' climber Alex Honnold often sees ...
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 ...
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 ...
Alex Honnold's 2017 free solo of Freerider (5.13a, 7c+), El Capitan. Freerider (915-meters, 30-pitches) – El Capitan, Yosemite – 3 June 2017 – First-ever big wall free solo at 5.13a (7c+), [233] by Alex Honnold; took 3 hours, 56 minutes. [137] [234] [235] 7b+ (5.12c): The famous "fish" feature on The Fish Route , Marmolada
Free soloing is the most dramatic soloing-technique and in 2017 became an Oscar-winning documentary film, Free Solo that featured Alex Honnold free soloing the 915-metre (3,002 ft) 35-pitch big wall climbing route Freerider in Yosemite, the world's first-ever free solo of a 5.13a (7c+) big wall route in history. [10] [11]