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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.
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
Climbers at night on El Capitan. The speed climbing record for the Nose has changed hands several times in the past few years. The current sub-two-hour record of 1:58:07 [44] was set on June 6, 2018, by Alex Honnold and Tommy Caldwell after two other record-breaking climbs in the days before.
One of an elite group of "free solo" rock climbers, he scales sheer vertical cliffs thousands of feet high, alone and without a rope. Now his death-defying ascent in 2017 of the towering El ...
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 ...
Caldwell appeared in the documentary Free Solo, released on September 28, 2018, about Alex Honnold's free solo ascent of Freerider on El Capitan in Yosemite National Park. In the documentary, Caldwell is seen working with Honnold to prepare for the climb and is interviewed about Honnold and rock climbing. [citation needed]
Honnold is the subject of the acclaimed documentary "Free Solo," about his unprecedented 2017 ropeless climb of El Capitan in Yosemite National Park. ... Alex Honnold is one of the most famous ...