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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.
Free solo climbing, or free soloing, is a form of rock climbing where the climber (or free soloist) ... [15] was featured in the 2018 documentary Free Solo, ...
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 ...
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 ...
You might not immediately think of Disney+ as a go-to for documentaries, but there's more than you think there are. Whether you're itching for a behind-the-scenes look at Obi-Wan Kenobi and Marvel ...
Free soloing is the most dramatic soloing-technique and in 2017 became an Oscar-winning documentary film, Free Solo that featured Alex Honnold free soloing the 915-metre (3,002 ft) 35-pitch big wall climbing route Freerider in Yosemite, the world's first-ever free solo of a 5.13a (7c+) big wall route in history. [10] [11]
In a new book, Jeff Smoot, author of "Hangdog Days," launches an encyclopedic investigation into free soloing's history... and why we do it. In a new book, Jeff Smoot, author of "Hangdog Days ...
The Alpinist is a 2021 American documentary film directed by Peter Mortimer and Nick Rosen about Marc-André Leclerc, a free-spirited and little-known 23-year-old Canadian rock climber, ice climber, and alpinist. From 2015 to 2016, a film crew followed Leclerc as he solo climbed some of the most difficult and dangerous alpine climbing routes in ...