Honnold free soloed a 1,000-foot wall after aborting his El Capitan attempt
Alex Honnold · The Risk, Fear, and Preparation Behind Free Solo · Feb 3, 2020 · at 5:19
Professional rock climber Alex Honnold discusses what happened immediately following his aborted first attempt to free solo El Capitan while filming Free Solo.
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“Then was not in the film is then I got on my bicycle and I rode over to this other thousand foot wall that was actually the first thing I ever free solid as a kid, basically that got me sponsored. Like the reason I became professional climbers, a route called Astro man. So I went and free sold that thing again, which I hadn't done in seven or eight years. And so I did that, and then I went over and repeated another 800 foot route that afternoon.”
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