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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 ...
Free solo climbing (which is sometimes just called soloing in the UK, or third-classing in the US), [6] is where the climber uses no climbing aids (as per all free-climbing), but in addition, uses no form of climbing protection whatsover. [6] The free solo climber may only use their climbing shoes and climbing chalk as they ascend the climbing ...
Free soloists are rock climbers who are notable for their free soloing. Pages in category "Free soloists" The following 46 pages are in this category, out of 46 total.
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 ...
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.
Notable free solo ice climbers include Canadian Marc-Andre Leclerc, [17] and Swiss ice climber, Dani Arnold, who has free soloed routes of grade WI7. [18] Related to this is the activity of mixed climbing free soloing (e.g. using ice climbing equipment on routes that are a combination of ice and rock).
The Diamond on Longs Peak is the most famous alpine rock climbing area in Colorado. Davis has made free solo climbing a specialty and is "one of the world's most experienced" free solo climbers. [14] In free solo climbing, climbers rely only on themselves to ascend the rock and use no protective gear; they use no ropes, harnesses or anything ...
Michael Reardon (1974–2007) US, prolific free solo climber and film producer Dave Rearick (born 1934) US, rock climber, first ascent of Diamond on Longs Peak (1960) Gaston Rébuffat (1921–1985) France, 1950 Annapurna expedition , first to climb all six great north faces of the Alps , Alpine guide and author