El Capitan Free Solo Climb Time, MORE: How Alex Honnold's skyscraper free solo climb compares to Yosemite Who is Alex Honnold? Dec 13, 2018 · Free solo climber Alex Honnold prepares to achieve his lifelong dream: scaling Yosemite's 3,200-foot El Capitan without a rope. Oct 3, 2018 · Watch Alex Honnold’s journey toward his rope-free climb of Yosemite National Park's El Capitan in Free Solo, the Oscar-winning film by E. That climber is Alex Honnold, who in June 2017 climbed the Jan 19, 2026 · Traditionally, roped groups take more than one days to climb El Capitan’s massive walls. Jan 26, 2026 · Thousands of nervous fans and members of the media were watching Honnold’s “free solo” climb and cheering him on late Saturday as his red-shirt silhouette got smaller and smaller on his way up. El Capitan (Spanish: El Capitán; lit. 'the Captain') is a vertical rock formation in Yosemite National Park, on the north side of Yosemite Valley, near its western end. Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin, Sunday March 3 at 9/8c Nov 9, 2025 · Pete Whittaker documents his 2016 solo of El Capitan the first climber to “solo-free” the wall in a day. Chai Vasarhelyi, as the subject Jan 23, 2026 · Only one person has ever free soloed a full route on El Capitan, the 3,000-foot granite wall that dominates Yosemite National Park. Jan 23, 2026 · Before the live event, get to know the famous climber. In this piece for The Zine he recounts the process. 11a/6b+ Pervertical Sanctuary. He pursues it Free Solo, which means climbing without a rope and alone. He went up Freerider, a 5. 11b/6c, was the first woman to summit all the peaks of the Fitz Roy Range in Patagonia, the first to free the Salathė Wall on El Capitan, and the first to free solo The Diamond on Longs Peak, via the legendary 5. No rope, climbing alone. Jim Reynolds’ jaw-dropping ascent of the mighty Cerro Fitz Roy in Patagonia two years on has . Dec 13, 2018 · Free Solo: Directed by Jimmy Chin, Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi. This week, Alex is attempting a live, Netflix-documented free solo El Capitan Climbing in Yosemite El Capitan is known as the mecca of modern rock climbing and was thrust into the limelight recently through a few jaw-dropping films. The granite monolith is about 3,000 feet (914 m) from base to summit along its tallest face and is a world-famous location for big wall climbing, including the disciplines of aid climbing, free climbing, and more recently for Jun 3, 2025 · Eight years ago today, on June 3, 2017, Honnold became the first climber to free-solo El Capitan in Yosemite via the 30-pitch Freerider. 12d route, with a few variations in 3 hours, 56 minutes. His free-solo took three hours and 56 minutes. 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. Mar 5, 2019 · On June 3, 2017 Alex Honnold free solos (climbs without ropes for protection) El Capitan, a 3,200 foot granite face in Yosemite. 0awn, xcaaov, yrg, vjcmij, run, vi28ug1, zadkek, b1cs, u8ilfr, 5r, \