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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), a climb described in The New York Times as "one of the great ...

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3. www.climbing.com › people › alex-honnold-rockAlex Honnold, Rock Climber, Star of Free Solo - Climbing

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   May 3, 2022 · Alex Honnold (August 17, 1985) is an American climber known primarily for his big wall free solo ascents, largely in Yosemite National Park, California. Honnold achieved widespread fame after starring in the 2018 documentary Free Solo, which followed his successful attempt to free solo El Capitan via the climbing route Freerider (VI 5.13a 3,300 ...

4. www.alexhonnold.comAlex Honnold

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   Follow Climbing Gold on Instagram. Photo by Clayton Boyd. Top. Press. Represented by RXR Sports. Powered by Squarespace. Alex Honnold is a professional adventure rock climber whose audacious free-solo ascents of America’s biggest cliffs have made him one of the most recognized and followed climbers in the world.

5. www.climbing.com › people › history-behind-alexWhat You Didn't Know About Alex Honnold & His Free Solo of ...

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   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. Despite the glut of stories and films that have been generated about Honnold ...

6. www.nationalgeographic.com › adventure › articleFree Solo Climber Alex Honnold Ascends Yosemite's El Capitan ...

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   Oct 3, 2018 · Exclusive: Alex Honnold Completes the Most Dangerous Free-Solo Ascent Ever. The climber is the first person to reach the top of Yosemite’s 3,000-foot El Capitan wall without ropes.

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7. films.nationalgeographic.com › free-soloFree Solo | National Geographic Documentary Films

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   Dec 13, 2018 · Jimmy Chin is a professional climber, skier, mountaineer, 18-year member of The North Face Athlete Team and National Geographic Explorer. As the director, producer and cinematographer of the National Geographic Documentary Film FREE SOLO, which he co-directed with Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, Chin captured rock climber Alex Honnold's nail-biting free solo ascent of Yosemite National Park's El ...

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   Who filmed Alex Honnold's free solo climb?

   • As the director, producer and cinematographer of the National Geographic Documentary Film FREE SOLO, which he co-directed with Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, Chin captured rock climber Alex Honnold's nail-biting free solo ascent of Yosemite National Park's El Capitan.

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   How did free solo climbing change the world?

   • Those free solos astonished the climbing world and set new benchmarks in much the same way that Roger Bannister redefined distance running when he broke the four-minute mile in 1954. Rock climber Alex Honnold stands atop El Capitan after nearly four hours of climbing alone, without ropes or any other equipment or safety gear.

   Free Solo Climber Alex Honnold Ascends Yosemite's El Capitan Without …

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   How long does it take to climb the Freerider traverse?

   • With nowhere to stop, Honnold linked the two 5.12b Enduro Corner pitches into the Freerider Traverse (5.12b), a 150-foot section usually broken up into three pitches with hanging belays. From Roundtable Ledge, at the end of the Freerider Traverse, Honnold climbed the last 600 feet of 5.11+ crack and offwidth in 20 minutes, topping out at 9:28 a.m.

   What You Didn't Know About Alex Honnold & His Free Solo of Freerider

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9. www.alexhonnold.com › aboutAbout — Alex Honnold

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   ALEX HONNOLD is a professional adventure rock climber whose audacious free-solo ascents of America’s biggest cliffs have made him one of the most recognized and followed climbers in the world. A gifted but hard-working athlete, Alex “No Big Deal” Honnold is known as much for his humble, self-effacing attitude as he is for the dizzyingly ...