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There's a great documentary on the climbing culture of Yosemite and its evolution (including the equilibrium-punctuating arrival of Alex Honnold) available at l
by twoodfin 9y ago
There's a great documentary on the climbing culture of Yosemite and its evolution (including the equilibrium-punctuating arrival of Alex Honnold) available at least on Netflix: Valley Uprising.
Worth a watch.
- wink 9y ago"Climbing the Nose" is also pretty cool, but about a different route as far as I can tell.
- weaksauce 9y agoIt is a different route and significantly harder and will likely never be free soloed for a long time if ever. The crux is so insecure that it's suicide.
- wink 9y agoThanks, I figured as much but in the articles on Honnold's ascent I didn't find any mention of a specific route.
- skim- 9y agoIt was Freerider on El Capitan, https://www.mountainproject.com/v/freerider/106261545 https://www.mountainproject.com/v/freerider/106261545
- praneshp 9y agoFreerider. The other replier has the link for you. Mountain Project is a great website to use if you hear someone say they climbed up a route, and are curious about the route. You might want to checkout related articles on r/climbing, it's a reasonable community.
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- Lordarminius 9y agoequilibrium-punctuating arrival of Alex Honnold... Yeah, I guess that just about describes the guys career. Fun question: which people in other disciplines have had the same shattering effect in their field ? I can think of Bobby Fischer and Garry Kasparov in Chess.
- rhodysurf 9y agoKelly Slater in Surfing
- SamReidHughes 9y agoTiger Woods, Old Tom Morris, a whole crapton of scientists and musicians.