After nearly eight weeks of headwinds, rain, and hills, the friends finally arrived in Alaska, ready for the Devil’s Climb.

Two years later, Honnold put the term “free solo” into general usage when he summited the park’s iconic El Capitan monolith without a rope, which was captured in an Academy Award–winning film.

Renowned rock climber Alex Honnold has smashed the speed record for solo-climbing the longest route on El Capitan, the prominent cliff in Yosemite Valley where the world’s elite big-wall ...

World-class climbers Tommy Caldwell and Alex Honnold embark on one of their most challenging expeditions yet as part of The ...

Alex Honnold climbing free solo Freerider, El Capitan, Yosemite, USA on 3 June 2017. In doing so he has become the first person to climb El Cap without ropes Planetmountain.com is a site about ...

On June 3, legendary rock climber Alex Honnold completed the first ever free solo climb of El Capitan at Yosemite National Park in California. The 31-year-old climbed the nearly 3,000-foot wall in ...

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It inspired him to start the Honnold Foundation, investing in community-based solar energy projects. In 2023, world-famous climbers Alex Honnold (of "Free Solo" fame) and Tommy Caldwell tackled ...

World-class climbers Tommy Caldwell ... s three tallest formations: El Capitan, Half Dome, and Mt. Watkins)? Do you remember the year that was? Alex Honnold: We did that in 2012, but we knew ...