In the summer of 2016, Alex and Tommy Caldwell are climbing in Morocco in preparation for his free solo. Alex then admits wanting to break up with Sanni. He visits a physician, where it is revealed he has a compression fracture. Honnold, who has completed Freerider several times with protection equipment, is a shy loner, who lives in his van with then-girlfriend Sanni McCandless.Īlex goes climbing with Sanni, but while Sanni is feeding the rope through a grigri, she makes a mistake and Alex falls. No climber has ever completed a big-wall free solo at such a grade of difficulty in rock climbing history. His choice of big wall climbing route on El Capitan is called Freerider, a route that was created by Alexander Huber in 1998, and which is graded at 5.13a (7c+) in difficulty. Synopsis Ĭlimber Alex Honnold has been dreaming of free-soloing the 3,000 feet (914 m) rock wall of El Capitan in Yosemite National Park, a feat no-one has been able to perform. The film received acclaim from critics and numerous accolades, including winning Best Documentary Feature at the 91st Academy Awards. It was released in the United States on Septemand grossed over $28 million.
The film premiered at the Telluride Film Festival on August 31, 2018, and also screened at the 2018 Toronto International Film Festival, where it won the People's Choice Award in the Documentaries category. Free Solo is a 2018 American documentary film directed by Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin that profiles rock climber Alex Honnold on his quest to perform the first-ever free solo climb of a route on El Capitan, in Yosemite National Park, in June 2017.
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