Alex Honnold - Wikipedia
Free solo climbs of big wall routes. The first person to free solo a route on El Capitan. Speed record holder on The Nose of El Capitan. Alex Honnold (born August 17, 1985) is an American rock climber best known for his free solo ascents of big walls.
Free Solo Climber Alex Honnold Ascends Yosemite's El Capitan …
Oct 3, 2018 · Watch Alex Honnold's journey toward his rope-free climb of the world's most famous rock wall—Yosemite National Park's El Capitan—in Free Solo, a stunning, intimate, unfliching film by...
Climbing El Capitan | El Capitan Routes | What You Need to Know
May 25, 2024 · Climbing El Capitan stole the national spotlight with Alex Honnold’s death-defying free-solo climb on “El Cap”. The process of preparing and executing that dream was made into the Oscar-winning National Geographic documentary, Free Solo , by Jimmy Chin and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi.
What You Didn’t Know About Alex Honnold & His Free Solo of …
Mar 22, 2024 · As we all know, Alex Honnold made history in June 2017 by free soloing Freerider— becoming the first (and only) person to free solo a grade VI route on El Capitan. A month later, James Lucas’s now classic piece, “The Freerider,” appeared in Climbing No. 355.
Yosemite climber Alex Honnold just smashed a solo speed record on El ...
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...
Alex Honnold free solos a 5.12d route on El Capitan. WHAT.
Today, National Geographic broke the story that Alex Honnold, the best free soloist in the world, climbed El Capitan via Freerider (5.12d), without ropes. It is the first free solo ascent of El Cap, and arguably one of the crowning achievements of climbing up to this point.
Alex Honnold Completes First Free Solo of El Capitan - Climbing …
Jun 7, 2017 · Now, Alex Honnold has done the unthinkable; on June 3, he completed the first-ever free solo of El Capitan, climbing the wall via Freerider (VI, 5.13a). According to National Geographic, “He ascended the peak in 3 hours, 56 minutes, taking the final moderate pitch at …
Alex Honnold Cut a Yosemite Speed Record Nearly in Half - Outside Online
May 31, 2024 · Alex Honnold Just Smashed a Speed Record on El Capitan. Here’s What to Know. Yosemite’s most accomplished speed climber cut more than eight hours off the previous solo time on the Salathé Wall
First interview with free solo climber, Alex Honnold, who scaled El ...
Oct 3, 2018 · Watch Alex Honnold's journey toward his rope-free climb of the world's most famous rock wall—Yosemite National Park's El Capitan—in Free Solo, a stunning, intimate, unfliching film by...
How Alex Honnold free solo climbed Yosemite's El Capitan
With California’s Yosemite Valley far beneath him, Alex Honnold free solos— which means climbing without ropes or safety gear—up a crack on the 3,000-foot southwest face of El Capitan.