When most of us think of solo climbing we begin to think of compromises in safety, and while it is more efficient and safer to climb with a partner, there are plenty of opportunities for relatively ...
Ahead of Netflix's Skyscraper Live, the streaming service has added the remarkable documentary "Free Solo" starring Alex ...
Free soloing means climbing with no rope or gear, a historic genre that in the late 1970s, through the Yosemite-based John Bachar--at the time nicknamed Mr. Norelco, after a "cordless" electric razor- ...
Alex Honnold is scaling Mt. Fatherhood! The rock-climbing superstar — who specializes in “free soloing,” perhaps one of the most dangerous athletic pursuits on earth — has two tiny kids. But he tells ...
According to Collider, Free Solo, which debuted in 2018, depicts the life of Alex Honnold, an award-winning climber. Elizabeth Chai and Jimmy Chin follow the solo climber as he attempts the ...
Jeff Smoot begins his latest book, titled All and Nothing: Inside Free Soloing, by describing a moment in the mid-1980s when his life nearly came to an end. Back then, Smoot was one of America’s ...
particularly unnerving, in large part because of what climbing media focused on before and after these fatalities. The first of these was the death of 25 year-old Jonas Hainz, of South Tyrol (in ...
Alex Honnold, the world-renowned rock climber documented in the Oscar-winning film Free Solo, is up to some more death-defying adventures. The two-part virtual reality “experience” Alex Honnold: The ...