How Alex Honnold made ‘the ultimate climb’—without a rope. His stunning scramble up the 3,000-foot granite wall known as El Capitan, in less than 4 hours, came after meticulous planning and ...

Alex Honnold’s latest climbing project has taken him back to Yosemite National Park.. Honnold, star of the Oscar-winning 2018 climbing film Free Solo has spent the last few weeks attempting to ...

The solo speed record on the Salathé Wall, a climbing route on El Capitan in Yosemite National Park, had stood for 10 years. Then, on May 11a climber from Lake Tahoe named Brant Hysell tagged the ...

Yosemite climber Nick Ehman smashes El Capitan speed record set by Alex Honnold ascending 3,000ft cliff with only a short rope in just four hours and 39 minutes ...

Putting the climb into context, El Capitan is a vertical granite cliff, 914 meters high. It’s virtually the center of the rock-climbing universe and for many climbers would represent the ...

Alex is a 38-year-old rock climber who rose to fame in 2018 after climbing the world's most famous rock face, El Capitan, without any ropes — a style of climbing known as free soloing.

Alex Honnold, one of the world’s most daring climbers, has his sights set on free climbing The Nose on El Capitan in Yosemite National Park, California. The iconic 5.14 big wall route is usually ...

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Alex Honnold climbing free solo Freerider, El Capitan, Yosemite, USA on 3 June 2017. In doing so he has become the first person to climb El Cap without ropes Planetmountain.com is a site about ...

And it's very hard if you’re climbing up the 3,000-foot cliff face of Yosemite’s El Capitan alone, ... Are there any must-have pieces of gear for the novice climber? Alex Honnold: Not ...

Barbara Zangerl is only the second female climber to ever win the Paul Preuss Prize. The award committee said she has ...