World-class climber and Free Solo star Alex Honnold is mapping out his summer plans, and naturally they call for adventure.
The man who famously ascended Yosemite’s El Capitan rock face without ropes will be doing some mountaineering in Alaska with his fellow climber and friend Tommy Caldwell. And they’re taking the long way to get there.
“The two of us are biking from his house in Colorado to Alaska… [undertaking] a few very large, difficult climb objectives along the way. So, it’s basically a 2,000-mile bike ride with quite a bit of hard climbing, culminating in a difficult climb in Alaska,” Honnold told an audience Thursday at Sheffield DocFest in the U.K. He was Zoomed in by remote for a panel discussion with National Geographic executives who outlined their upcoming documentary projects, including several that feature Honnold. The Alaska trip will be filmed for a series tentatively...
The man who famously ascended Yosemite’s El Capitan rock face without ropes will be doing some mountaineering in Alaska with his fellow climber and friend Tommy Caldwell. And they’re taking the long way to get there.
“The two of us are biking from his house in Colorado to Alaska… [undertaking] a few very large, difficult climb objectives along the way. So, it’s basically a 2,000-mile bike ride with quite a bit of hard climbing, culminating in a difficult climb in Alaska,” Honnold told an audience Thursday at Sheffield DocFest in the U.K. He was Zoomed in by remote for a panel discussion with National Geographic executives who outlined their upcoming documentary projects, including several that feature Honnold. The Alaska trip will be filmed for a series tentatively...
- 6/16/2023
- by Matthew Carey
- Deadline Film + TV
Alex Honnold, the climber known for summiting El Capitan with no ropes in the documentary Free Solo, added another massive climbing achievement to his resume.
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Honnold shared an impressive size comparison showing how much higher Ingmikortilaq in Greenland was than his previous titanic climbs.
The rock face was almost 4,000 feet tall, and Honnold said on Twitter that he did the climb along with the British climber Hazel Findlay.
Hazel Findlay & I completed an epic first ascent of Ingmikortilaq, a remote 3,750-foot rock wall in eastern Greenland. For more on the climb, watch GMA and visit https://t.co/Mdgfm98G07. pic.twitter.com/TWQwHUPxbd
— Alex Honnold (@AlexHonnold) August 18, 2022
Honnold and the rest of the team had to travel far via air and water vehicles to the remote Greenland location and spent about five days hanging and securing ropes for the climb.
He said on GMA,...
> Watch Alex Honnold’s uINTERVIEW!
Honnold shared an impressive size comparison showing how much higher Ingmikortilaq in Greenland was than his previous titanic climbs.
The rock face was almost 4,000 feet tall, and Honnold said on Twitter that he did the climb along with the British climber Hazel Findlay.
Hazel Findlay & I completed an epic first ascent of Ingmikortilaq, a remote 3,750-foot rock wall in eastern Greenland. For more on the climb, watch GMA and visit https://t.co/Mdgfm98G07. pic.twitter.com/TWQwHUPxbd
— Alex Honnold (@AlexHonnold) August 18, 2022
Honnold and the rest of the team had to travel far via air and water vehicles to the remote Greenland location and spent about five days hanging and securing ropes for the climb.
He said on GMA,...
- 8/28/2022
- by Jacob Linden
- Uinterview
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