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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.
The free solo climber may only use their climbing shoes and climbing chalk as they ascend the climbing route. [6] Free solo climbing is a special form of free climbing but is different from the main forms of free climbing — sport climbing and traditional climbing — that use climbing protection for safety.
'Free Solo' star Alex Honnold saw the effects of climate change in his climbing career. He started the Honnold Foundation to invest in solar energy.
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 ...
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In later years, new variations were discovered by other climbers which allowed a free ascent at only 5.12a. [9] [10] In 2008 Alex Honnold, after a few rehearsals, made the first free solo ascent, via the 5.12a variations, in 2 hours and 50 minutes. [11]
In "The Devil's Climb," a National Geographic documentary, the famed rock climbers Tommy Caldwell and Alex Honnold ("Free Solo") break a world record by climbing a treacherous Alaskan mountain in ...