This past November, Honnold made his first attempt at the free solo, but backed off after less than an hour of climbing because conditions did not feel right. A small circle of friends and fellow climbers who knew about the project had been sworn to secrecy.Ī team of filmmakers, led by Jimmy Chin, one of Honnold’s longtime climbing partners, and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, captured the ascent for an upcoming National Geographic Documentary Films feature. There, he pulled on a pair of sticky soled climbing shoes, fastened a small bag of chalk around his waist to keep his hands dry, found his first toehold, and began inching his way up toward climbing history.įor more than a year, Honnold has been training for the climb at locations in the United States, China, Europe, and Morocco. He parked the van and hiked up the boulder-strewn path to the base of the cliff. He had spent the night in the customized van that serves as his mobile base camp, risen in the dark, dressed in his favorite red t-shirt and cutoff nylon pants, and eaten his standard breakfast of oats, flax, chia seeds, and blueberries, before driving to El Capitan Meadow. Honnold began his historic rope-less climb-a style known as “free soloing”-in the pink light of dawn at 5:32 a.m. Watch the trailer for Free Solo, a stunning, intimate, and vertigo-inducing film about rock climber Alex Honnold's journey to climbing the world’s most famous rock wall-El Capitan in Yosemite National Park-without a rope or safety gear.
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