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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 ...
Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi (/ ˌ v ɑː s ə ˈ r ɛ l i / VAH-sə-REL-ee; [1] born 1977 or 1978) [2] is an American documentary filmmaker. She was the director, along with her husband, Jimmy Chin, for the film Free Solo, which won the 2019 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.
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 ...
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 ...
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
In 2022, along with Alex Honnold, she made a first free ascent of Ingmikortilaq, a 3,750-foot wall and one of the world’s tallest monoliths, in Greenland. [12] A more complete list of Hazel's ascents can be found on theCrag. Other first female ascents of trad routes by Findlay include: Air Sweden (5.13b R) in Indian Creek, Utah, in April 2010 ...
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