this kid climbs the face of El Capitan without ropes..................
"as a climbing expert".......................
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alex is insane and his mental game is nuts, there are definately guys out there that climb way harder than him but none have that mental game to even think about the stuff he does.
any of the reel rock films are also highly reccommended
meru was pretty bad ass as well
"touching the void" while not the same type of film, is one of my favorite documentaries/ reenactments. that whole movie is a epic shit show.
Don't think I've seen Cerro Torre.
Dawn wall was good i remember watching them on youtube live finish the last few pitches.
Crazy thing about the Dawn wall was how fast Adam ondra repeated it. All impressive ascents
Huh, I didn’t know anyone had repeated it. Pretty impressive! It seems that once a 1st assent takes place, climbers tend to follow suit pretty quickly after that. I wonder how long it takes someone to free solo el cap now that Alex has done it.....
Assault on El Cap and Wings of Steel are a couple more good ones.
Huh, I didn’t know anyone had repeated it. Pretty impressive! It seems that once a 1st assent takes place, climbers tend to follow suit pretty quickly after that. I wonder how long it takes someone to free solo el cap now that Alex has done it.....
Assault on El Cap and Wings of Steel are a couple more good ones.
Big difference when you start talking about free solo repeats though. Ondra is incredible but as far as I know he does not free solo at all. I would imagine the mental aspect of his niche will give Alex’s achievement a ton of staying power vs people that are advancing on the edge of pure difficulty like Ondra.
Great presentation. Would have preferred more film time spent on the face, amazing to see his tiny footholds and finger tip holds.
Didn't need the GF scenes. He's the story. Guy has no fear.
it won best documentary at the Oscars...............Pretty amazing how they filmed it as well. Great documentary of an incredible accomplishment. But as the saying goes about old climbers and bold climbers...
I hope he can keep his streak indefinitely, or find another outlet prior to making an error on a route.
I’ve been off work today with fever and crud. I stumbled across this thread and watched Free Solo and Asault on El Capitan. Absolutely amazing. Tommy Caldwell is a 9 1/2 fingered machine. Thanks for bringing these documentaries up.
I remember seeing that Alex kid free solo El Cap at the BAMFF film festival years ago. Many years, I can't recall how many. My thought was "that kid will be dead in a couple years". Well, I was wrong.
I think he's nuts but he seems to know what he's doing. Incredible stamina, confidence, technical proficiency. And balls. HUGE balls.
You're right. I think I saw him maybe ten, twelve years ago. From wikipedia:
In the mind of the climbing world, Honnold emerged from the goo fully formed. In 2006 nobody had heard of him. In 2007 he free soloed Yosemite's Astroman and the Rostrum in a day, matching Peter Croft's legendary 1987 feat, and suddenly Honnold was pretty well-known. A year later, he free soloed the 1,200-foot, 5.12d finger crack that splits Zion's Moonlight Buttress. The ascent was reported on April 1. For days, people thought the news was a joke. Five months afterward, Honnold took the unprecedented step of free soloing the 2,000-foot, glacially bulldozed Regular Northwest Face of Half Dome. Croft called this climb the most impressive ropeless ascent ever done.