His stunning scramble up the 3,000-foot granite wall known as El Capitan, in less than 4 hours, came after meticulous planning and training.
We asked Alex Honnold, the climber featured in the upcoming documentary “Free Solo,” for some climbing tips to share. Here’s what he gave us.
How Alex Honnold beat fear and scaled El Capitan in Yosemite National Park without ropes.
‘Alex was on vacation in Greece – but even on vacation, he still climbs. Fortunately, unlike in the film Free Solo, he’s on a rope here’
The deep water soloing season is upon us so here is an in-depth destination guide to the world famous DWS paradise of Mallorca with news of a new publication from Rockfax.
If you’ve lived in the Treasure Valley since 2018, you may have been familiar with the Urban Ascent climbing gym in downtown Boise. The owners, employees, and climbers of that gym came together after its closure with a new goal in mind. They cr
Climbing There are few more daring and death-defying feats in the world than free soloing - climbing treacherous cliff faces with nothing but hands and feet to prevent a potentially fatal fall. Alex Honnold's free solo of the El Capitan face in Yosemite NP in 2017 took it to another level. Jim Reynolds’ jaw-dropping ascent of the mighty Cerro Fitz Roy in Patagonia two years on has added another benchmark. We ran the rule over some of the most amazing and significant free solos in history, with
Generally, you are not too old to start rock climbing. This sport keeps you young and improves your health.
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Deep water soloing at Summersville Lake in West Virginia is illegal. The wild and unique PsicoRoc event wants to change that.
Rope soloing is simply the ability to climb alone, yet still have the safety of being attached to a rope (rather than free-soloing). It involves double the amount of work; all the work that your...
