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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 ...
32 hours, 35 miles, 23 summits, 14 classic rock routes, and 24,000 feet of vertical gain--that's the Honnold Ultimate Red Rock Traverse Alex Honnold’s Latest Absurdity, the HURT, is the Real ...
Alex Honnold and Chin started climbing together in 2009 but it was not until 2015 that Honnold chose Chin and wife Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi to film his process of climbing up El Capitan. [ 19 ] On June 3, 2017, Chin led a team that filmed Alex Honnold on the first ever rope-free ascent of El Capitan in Yosemite National Park.
Alex Honnold and his wife, Sanni McCandless, announced the arrival of their first daughter. The decorated rock climber, who starred in the Oscar-winning Free Solo, took to Instagram on Thursday to ...
One investment firm is going to donate a portion of its profits from its new VC fund to climate groups, including solo climber Alex Honnold’s organization Anne Sraders September 25, 2023 at 7:56 AM
Arctic Ascent with Alex Honnold is a 2024 television series that follows climber Alex Honnold on an expedition to ascend Ingmikortilaq, a 3,750 foot sea cliff in Greenland, one of the highest unclimbed cliff faces.
“Alex Honnold: The Soloist” and “Glimpse” were awarded at Cannes XR x VeeR Future Awards on May 22, named best VR story and best VR interactive experience respectively. The winners were ...
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.