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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 ...
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 ...
Free Solo is a 2018 American documentary film directed by Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin [4] that profiles rock climber Alex Honnold on his quest to perform the first-ever free solo climb of a route on El Capitan, in Yosemite National Park in California, in June 2017. [5] [6]
Filmed 26-year-old Alex Honnold complete the Triple Solo in Yosemite Valley, CA for one of their Reel Rock Film Tour 2012 short films. Reel Rock Film Tour 2011, part of an annual compilation of adventure film shorts that is co-produced by Sender Films and Big UP Productions, featured a short film called Sketchy Andy .
'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 ...
Honnold and his climbing partner Hazel Findlay made it to the top of Ingmikortilaq on Aug. 16 ‘Free Solo’ Climber Alex Honnold Successfully Summits One of World’s Tallest Monoliths for ...
Jerry Moffatt free-soloing L'Horla at Curbar Edge. Free solo climbing (sometimes referred to as soloing in the UK, or third-classing in the US), [6] is where the climber uses no climbing protection whatsoever (and as with all free climbing, no form of climbing aid is used either); [6] they may only use their climbing shoes and climbing chalk to ascend a single-pitch, or a multi-pitch/big wall ...
The second climber suffered "serious traumatic injuries," the park service said. Another climbing party witnessed the fall, called it in at around 10:45 p.m. local time, and then went down to help ...