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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 route on El Capitan in Yosemite National Park (via the 2,900-foot route Freerider at 5.13a , the first-ever at that grade), [3] a climb ...
Jun 3, 2018 · Almost exactly a year ago, climber Alex Honnold gained the world's attention when he reached El Capitan's peak in just under four hours doing a "free-solo," without safety gear.
Jan 2, 2023 · In 2011, American climber Alex Honnold executed a free-solo climb (that is to say, without any ropes) of a 40-meter route known as The Phoenix, in California’s Yosemite National Park. The feat...
Mar 12, 2015 · Ten feet, 20, 30 — Honnold entered death-fall territory with the same casual deliberateness that someone might apply to arranging knickknacks in a bedroom.
Nov 29, 2019 · The 31-year-old California native was descending a cliff face in northern Mexico before coming loose and falling roughly 1,000 feet to his death, authorities said.
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.
Jun 13, 2024 · If you defy death — and gravity — enough, everyday life stops being so scary. Alex Honnold climbing onsight, or without advance knowledge of the route, near Las Vegas. Honnold took months to...
Feb 21, 2019 · Honnold’s seemingly blase approach to such death-defying challenges can be disconcerting at first but scratch under the surface and you understand it’s an attitude built on a foundation of...
As a pioneer of “free solo” climbing—a controversial discipline in which cliff faces are scaled without safety ropes and failure results in death—Honnold, 35, knows how to perform under...
Feb 25, 2019 · Some climbers seem to think that this will extend to free soloing and that we’ll see a rash of deaths thanks to Honnold’s most famous exploit, but I strongly disagree.
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