Alex Honnold free solos El Cap
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Alex Honnold free solos El Cap
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Re: Alex Honnold free solos 5.12d Freerider on El Cap
forwardbias wrote:Sure but did he trad free solo it?
https://www.climbing.com/news/real-rock-climber/
Also, amazing.
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"It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves." Hillary, 2003
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Re: Alex Honnold free solos 5.12d Freerider on El Cap
Totally Amazing. Climbing Freerider *with* ropes is a life-goal of many a hardened climber.
The Hubert bros. aren't known to put up soft-graded routes - there is some contention that one of them actually climbed the first 5.15a/9a+, but graded it 9a.
The Hubert bros. aren't known to put up soft-graded routes - there is some contention that one of them actually climbed the first 5.15a/9a+, but graded it 9a.
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Re: Alex Honnold free solos 5.12d Freerider on El Cap
forwardbias wrote:Sure but did he trad free solo it?
https://www.climbing.com/news/real-rock-climber/
Also, amazing.
Agreed.Bouldering is great.
There's more to life than 14ers. There are 13ers.
Re: Alex Honnold free solos 5.12d Freerider on El Cap
I get puckered up just reading the article.
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Re: Alex Honnold free solos 5.12d Freerider on El Cap
I like someone's comment on MP....Legendary bordering mythic. Seriously, wtf
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Re: Alex Honnold free solos El Cap
Thanks for sharing.
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Re: Alex Honnold free solos El Cap
Wow what a cool class 5 hike I wonder what brand of microspikes he uses
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Re: Alex Honnold free solos El Cap
A more detailed report with pictures. This is insane-
http://elcapreport.com/content/elcap-re ... solo-elcap
http://elcapreport.com/content/elcap-re ... solo-elcap
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Re: Alex Honnold free solos El Cap
Talk about presence of mind lol - holy cow.
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Re: Alex Honnold free solos El Cap
What an idiot.