Alex climbs

Alex Honnold (born August 17, 1985) is an American rock climber best known for his free solo ascents of big-wall climbing routes. Honnold rose to worldwide fame in June 2017 when he became the first person to free solo a full route on El Capitan in Yosemite National Park (via the 880-metre (2,900 ft) route Freerider at grade 5.13a, the first-ever big-wall free-solo ascent at that grade),[3] a climb described in The New York Times as “one of the great…

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The ascent of Alex Honnold (CBS)

Alexander Honnold (born August 17, 1985) is an American rock climber best known for his free solo ascents of big walls. His 2017 accomplishment of free soloing El Capitan, in Yosemite National Park, is regarded as one of the greatest athletic achievements of all time.[2][3] Honnold is the only person to free solo El Capitan,[4] and holds the fastest ascent of the Yosemite triple crown, an 18-hour, 50-minute link-up…

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