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e. Free solo climbing, or free soloing, is a form of rock climbing where the climbers (or free soloists) climb solo (or alone) without ropes or other protective equipment, using only their climbing shoes and their climbing chalk. [1] Free soloing is the most dangerous form of climbing, and, unlike bouldering, free soloists climb above safe ...
Learn about the history, grades, and ascents of free solo climbing, the purest and most minimalist form of rock climbing. Discover the reasons, challenges, and notable figures of this high-stakes sport that requires extraordinary focus and control.
Oct 3, 2018 · Rock climber Alex Honnold became the first person to scale the 3,000-foot granite wall of El Capitan without ropes or safety gear in 2017. Read the exclusive story and watch the film of his daring feat.
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- Cerro Fitz Roy. Location: El Chalten, Patagonia, Argentina. Climber: Jim Reynolds. Year: 2019. Just when we thought Honnold’s El Capitan ascent was impossible to match, his fellow American Jim Reynolds came out of the blue and free soloed up AND down the mighty Cerro Fitz Roy in Patagonia.
- Freerider on El Capitan. Location: Yosemite, USA. Climber: Alex Honnold. Year: 2017. This jaw-dropping feat saw 31-year-old soloing superstar Alex Honnold ascend nearly 915m (3,000ft) of granite wall on this iconic American mountain using just his bare hands, shoes and a bag of chalk.
- Widow's Tears. Location: Yosemite, USA. Climber: Vitaliy Musiyenko. Year: 2016. This immense 305m (1,000ft) high ice climb rarely forms, but when it did on New Year's Day in 2016, Ukranian-born Californian climber Vitaliy Musiyenko scampered up it with just a pair of ice picks.
- Cnoc na Mara. Location: Donegal, Republic of Ireland. Climber: Iain Miller. Date: 2016. Towering 100m above of the Irish sea, the Cnoc na Mara stack takes some climbing, not least because you have to paddle out to sea just to get to it.
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 ...
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 E. Chai ...
Feb 8, 2019 · As shown in the film Free Solo, Honnold made an attempt to climb Freerider in 2017 but backed off around 275m [900ft] up on the Freeblast slabs, on a very tenuous foothold, which you have to ...
