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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.
Alex Honnold was the first to free solo El Cap entirely on June 3 of 2017. ... James T. Kirk, portrayed by William Shatner, attempts a free solo climb of El Capitan.
Honnold is the subject of the acclaimed documentary "Free Solo," about his unprecedented 2017 ropeless climb of El Capitan in Yosemite National Park. ... Alex Honnold is one of the most famous ...
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 ...
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 ...
Free Solo, a 2018 documentary film about Alex Honnold's free solo climb of Freerider 5.13a (7c+) on El Capitan. King Lines , a 2007 documentary film about Chris Sharma , featuring his free solo climb of the DWS route, Es Pontàs 9a+ (5.15a), in Mallorca .
Alex Honnold climbing El Capitan without a rope. The underwater rescue of 12 Thai boys from the Tham Luang Nang Non cave. Three elite mountaineers summiting Mount Meru — just shortly after one ...