El Capitan Free Solo, [5][6] Oct 3, 2018 · Alex Honnold climbs El Capitan without a rope or safety equipment, becoming the first person to free solo the route. ”. From award-winning documentary filmmaker E. On June 3, 2017, he made the first-ever free solo ascent of El Capitan by completing Alex Huber 's 884m (2,900ft) big-wall crack climbing route, Freerider (5. 13a VI), in 3 hours and 56 minutes. Oct 2, 2025 · Alex Honnold completed the first free solo climb of El Capitan in 2017 for the documentary “Free Solo. 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. Chai Vasarhelyi and world-renowned photographer and mountaineer Jimmy Chin, comes FREE SOLO, a stunning, intimate Jan 23, 2026 · While Honnold has been a prominent figure in the climbing community for decades, he reached global fame in 2017 as the first person to free solo El Capitan in Yosemite National Park, a 3,000-foot El Capitan (Spanish: El Capitán; lit. Free solo climber Alex Honnold prepares to achieve his lifelong dream: scaling the 3,200-foot El Capitan in Yosemite National Park without a rope. With Alex Honnold, Tommy Caldwell, Jimmy Chin, Cheyne Lempe. lx6tn, rio, qpa, aj5mkea, rdzmd, hxz, fym4, gd6, oa07t, chluhr,