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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, ...
'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.
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 ...
Climbing without safety rope was once incredibly niche, but has reportedly grown in popularity due to “Free Solo” (2018), an Oscar-winning documentary about Alex Honnold — who scaled ...
In 2015, director Peter Mortimer, a climber himself, comes across a blog post about Leclerc, a 23-year-old Canadian who had solo climbed a famous climbing route known as The Corkscrew (1,250m, 5.10d, A1) on Cerro Torre. [1] Mortimer travels to Squamish, British Columbia—the heart of Canada's climbing scene—to meet Leclerc. Leclerc is quirky ...
That’s where those like Alex Honnold, the well-known solo climber and philanthropist (who you may know from the National Geographic documentary Free Solo, which documents his climb of El Capitan ...