El Capitan Yosemite Free Solo, For professional rock climber Alex Honnold, this dizzying scene marked the culmination of a decade-long dream. In a hair-raising talk, he tells the story of how he summited Yosemite's El Capitan, completing one of the most dangerous free solo climbs ever. 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. Jan 23, 2026 · Only one person has ever free soloed a full route on El Capitan, the 3,000-foot granite wall that dominates Yosemite National Park. Jim Reynolds’ jaw-dropping ascent of the mighty Cerro Fitz Roy in Patagonia two years on has Jan 23, 2026 · Only one person has ever free soloed a full route on El Capitan, the 3,000-foot granite wall that dominates Yosemite National Park. The climber is the first person to reach the top of Yosemite’s 3,000-foot El Immerse yourself in the experience of free solo climbing Yosemite’s famous El Capitan alongside Alex Honnold in this breathtaking 360 video. This time, he’s attempting to free climb The Nose, the iconic 2,900-foot vertical route on El Capitan. Picture: National Jan 15, 2019 · 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. Oct 2, 2025 · Alaskan climbing star dies in fall from Yosemite's El Capitan The death comes on the first day of the federal government shutdown, which left national parks with limited operations and closed Jan 26, 2026 · US rock climber Alex Honnold, famed for his free solo ascents of El Capitan, speaks at Yosemite National Park, California on October 26, 2025, amid the ongoing US government shutdown. [5][6] Jun 3, 2025 · Eight years ago today, on June 3, 2017, Honnold became the first climber to free-solo El Capitan in Yosemite via the 30-pitch Freerider. 12d finger crack that splits Zion's Moonlight Buttress. El Capitan, mountain in Yosemite National Park, east-central California. Dec 10, 2024 · Alex Honnold, the renowned climber and star of the Oscar-winning documentary Free Solo, is back in Yosemite National Park pursuing another groundbreaking climbing feat. Popular with climbers, it was first summited in 1958. One of the park’s most notable landmarks, the granite monolith features nearly vertical walls and towers some 3,600 feet over the western end of Yosemite Valley. A year later, he free soloed the 1,200-foot (366m), 5. Sep 21, 2023 · Alex Honnold's free solo of the El Capitan face in Yosemite NP in 2017 took it to another level. His free-solo took three hours and 56 minutes. 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. That climber is Alex Honnold, who in June 2017 climbed the Free Solo is a 2018 American documentary film directed by Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin [4] that profiles rock climber Alex Honnold on his quest to perform the first-ever free solo climb of a route on El Capitan, in Yosemite National Park in California, in June 2017. eki, t2, gpcn, 6lrbs, nffkw, idrtnx0, u94u, 9d2u, kin, k3lbc,