Alex Honnold free solos El Cap

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Alex Honnold free solos El Cap

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Last edited by Tory Wells on Sun Jun 04, 2017 10:37 am, edited 1 time in total.
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Re: Alex Honnold free solos 5.12d Freerider on El Cap

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Sure but did he trad free solo it?

https://www.climbing.com/news/real-rock-climber/


Also, amazing.
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Re: Alex Honnold free solos 5.12d Freerider on El Cap

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forwardbias wrote:Sure but did he trad free solo it?

https://www.climbing.com/news/real-rock-climber/


Also, amazing.
:lol:
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Re: Alex Honnold free solos 5.12d Freerider on El Cap

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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.
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Re: Alex Honnold free solos 5.12d Freerider on El Cap

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forwardbias wrote:Sure but did he trad free solo it?

https://www.climbing.com/news/real-rock-climber/


Also, amazing.
Bouldering is great.
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Re: Alex Honnold free solos 5.12d Freerider on El Cap

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I get puckered up just reading the article.
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I like someone's comment on MP....Legendary bordering mythic. Seriously, wtf
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:shock:

Thanks for sharing.
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Re: Alex Honnold free solos El Cap

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Wow what a cool class 5 hike I wonder what brand of microspikes he uses
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A more detailed report with pictures. This is insane-
http://elcapreport.com/content/elcap-re ... solo-elcap
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Talk about presence of mind lol - holy cow.
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Re: Alex Honnold free solos El Cap

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What an idiot.
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