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Alex Honnold 3.0
saw this movie at the Banff Mountain Film Festival last night..... absolutely insane. On June 5 and 6, 2012 Alex Honnold made the first ever solo link up of Yosemite's Mt Watkins, El Capitan, and Half Dome, climbing 95% free solo with a few points of aid. He finished the solo triple in 18 hours 50 minutes. This is raw footage from his climb of Watkins... http://youtu.be/uQb4_8PyZBM <iframe width="853" height="480" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/uQb4_8PyZBM" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
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Re:Alex Honnold 3.0
2013/02/20 14:12:02
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RELATED: NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SPECIAL ON HONNOLD <iframe width="853" height="480" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/leCAy1v1fnI" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> http://youtu.be/leCAy1v1fnI
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Re:Alex Honnold 3.0
2013/02/20 14:33:02
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Yes. Amazing (insane) stuff. I have seen footage of this young man before. These free-climbers amaze me and make me nervous just watching them. No sense of fear. One unexpected mistake, and ....
Hopefully the movie will make it to DVD one-day.
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Re:Alex Honnold 3.0
2013/02/20 14:41:27
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Re:Alex Honnold 3.0
2013/02/20 16:08:52
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ken-
i really think there is only one guy in the world doing the stuff this kid does.
that's what makes him very unique.
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Re:Alex Honnold 3.0
2013/02/21 11:29:45
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FROM THIS FEATURE STORY, http://www.outsideonline....s-Attached.html?page=1 Another of Honnold's heroes is Tommy Caldwell, 32, a leading big-wall free climber. Free climbing is different from free soloing in that it involves a rope and protection: Caldwell relies on a partner's belay as he works pitch after pitch until he can string together a continuous ascent of a long route with no "aiding," or resting on gear. There is no climber alive whom Honnold admires more. Yet Caldwell echoes Anker's conservatism. "I've never tried to free-solo anything really grand," he says. "I've fallen completely unexpectedly lots of times—maybe a dozen—on relatively easy terrain, when a hold broke off or the rubber peeled off the sole of my shoe or something. If I'd been soloing, I'd have died." The numbers support Caldwell's position. The list of athletes who've pushed the limits of free soloing in North America in the past 40 years centers on nine people: Henry Barber, Derek Hersey, John Bachar, Dan Osman, Charlie Fowler, Michael Reardon, Steph Davis, Croft, and Potter. Five of them are dead. Hersey fell trying to free-solo the Steck-Salathé route in Yosemite in 1993. Osman, who also practiced "rope jumping"—leaping off walls while attached to nylon cords—died in 1998 when one of his ropes broke. A 2006 avalanche in western China killed Fowler, one of the few soloists to embrace high-altitude mountaineering. Reardon was swept off an Irish sea cliff by a rogue wave in 2007 as he free-soloed for a photographer. In 2009, Bachar fell while climbing a route he had free-soloed many times before, on a cliff near his home in Mammoth Lakes, California.
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Re:Alex Honnold 3.0
2013/02/21 16:42:55
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Re:Alex Honnold 3.0
2013/02/21 21:05:12
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Interesting info. Totally amazing, but gives me the creeps.
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Re:Alex Honnold 3.0
2013/02/22 10:31:52
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he's like the only guy in the world that does these level of climbs...
and all of his peer group, admit they don't have what it takes mentally.
they're all able to do the physical part.....
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Re:Alex Honnold 3.0
2013/02/22 10:42:30
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If I were one of his parents I don't believe I would ever sleep.
Do they keep an ambulance on hand....just in case?
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