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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 ...
The free solo climber may only use their climbing shoes and climbing chalk as they ascend the climbing route. [6] Free solo climbing is a special form of free climbing but is different from the main forms of free climbing — sport climbing and traditional climbing — that use climbing protection for safety.
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 ascent of Beta Block Super WI7 in 1h 03min (2017) – First and only free solo ascent of the ice route Beta Block Super on Breitwangfluh. [18] Ritter der Kokosnuss M12 (2017) – Mixed climbing of the "Ritter der Kokosnuss" M12 route on Breitwangfluh. [19] First ascent "Schweizernase" on the Matterhorn North Face (2017) [20]
Brette Harrington (born 1992) is an American professional rock climber and alpinist based in Lake Tahoe, California and British Columbia, Canada.She was featured in the 2021 film The Alpinist alongside her late partner, Marc-André Leclerc.
In 1986, inspired by the photo of Jardine, [10] Wolfgang Güllich traveled to Yosemite, with Austrian photographer and climber Heinz Zak , and made the first free solo of Separate Reality. [11] [5] Güllich's 1986 free solo has since become an iconic feat in climbing history, [1] [12] and was listed on Red Bull's "10 Most Epic Free Solo Climbs ...
A Boulder, Colorado, woman died Sunday while free solo climbing a ridge at Rocky Mountain National Park — and falling approximately 500 feet. The 26-year-old was found on Ypsilon Mountain at the ...
Michael Reardon was one of only a few professional free-solo climbers. He traveled the world looking for the next ultimate solo climb, giving motivational speeches and presenting slideshows. Reardon was known for leaving mementos for those who followed him.