13-Year-Old Boy Fell to His Death While Free Soloing in Snow Canyon State Park, UT A 13-year-old Iowa boy fell to his death Sunday afternoon while climbing in Snow Canyon State Park, UT park officials said. The boy, who was visiting the park with his mother and two siblings, was free-soloing without any equipment, including a helmet, when he fell “from a significant height and died at the scene due to injuries sustained from the fall,” […] Climbing CragBrains | March 22, 2019 2 Comments
‘Free Solo’ Picked Up the Oscar for ‘Best Documentary’ at the Academy Awards Last Night “Free Solo” won the Oscar for Best Documentary Feature at the 91st Acadamy Awards ceremony last night in Los Angeles, CA. The documentary, directed by husband and wife team Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin, gives a unique insight into rock climber Alex Honnold’s mindblowing quest to perform a free solo (no harness or safety ropes) ascent of El Capitan […] Climbing CragBrains | February 25, 2019 0 Comments
VIDEO: ‘What if He Falls?’ | Behind the Scenes of Alex Honnold’s Free Solo El Capitan Climb In 2017, when Alex Honnold made his stunning free-solo ascent of Yosemite’s El Capitan, he was taking an unimaginable risk: nearly three thousand feet of climbing without any ropes or safety equipment. You might also like: VIDEO: Heart-Thumping 360º Video of Alex Honnold’s El Capitan Free Solo Climb But was the climb made even riskier by the filmmakers who accompanied him? […] Climbing CragBrains | December 5, 2018 0 Comments
VIDEO: Heart-Thumping 360º Video of Alex Honnold’s El Capitan Free Solo Climb Forgive us for yet another video of this unbelievable achievement. It’s unlikely any of us will ever achieve this, so immerse yourself in the experience of free solo climbing Yosemite’s famous El Capitan alongside Alex Honnold in this breathtaking 360 video. You might also like: Movie Trailer: ‘Free Solo’ Documents Alex Honnold’s Historic Ropeless El Capitan Ascent If you haven’t already […] Climbing CragBrains | November 10, 2018 1 Comment
Movie Trailer: ‘Free Solo’ Documents Alex Honnold’s Historic Ropeless El Capitan Ascent What must surely be one of the most anticipated movies this year, “Free Solo” is the story of climber Alex Honnold’s 3,200-foot ropeless ascent of a route on El Capitan in Yosemite. The dramatic National Geographic film was shot by world-renowned photographer and mountaineer Jimmy Chin and award-winning documentary filmmaker E. Chai Vasarhelyi, the duo behind the film, “Meru.” High praise […] Movie Trailer CragBrains | August 10, 2018 0 Comments
1st Video of Alex Honnold’s 3,000-Vertical-Foot Free Solo Climb of El Captian On June 3rd, 2017, Alex Honnold completed a 3,000-vertical-foot ascent of “Freerider” on El Capitan in Yosemite, CA without using ropes nor safety gear. This is the first video released of his climb. Hearing him breath gave us chills… This was the first ever free-solo of El Capitan and very well could be the last. This was a huge goal […] Industry News CragBrains | June 6, 2017 0 Comments
Free Solo Climber Falls, Dies on Boulder, Colorado’s Flatirons Two people were hiking the Gregory Canyon trail just outside Boulder, CO on Sunday, September 27th, 2015 when they discovered the body of a man at the base of one of the Flatirons. It was the Fifth Pinnacle which is a part of the Gregory Flatironette. Police later identified the body as 22-year-old male Angus Moloney. It’s believed that Angus […] SnowBrains | October 7, 2015 1 Comment
VIDEO: Polish Daredevil Arrested After Free-Soloing Second Tallest Building in France A Polish climber was arrested after scaling the outside of the Montparnasse Tower in central Paris on the evening of September 18, French media reports. Videos taken by nervous onlookers from the bottom of the 689-foot skyscraper (France’s second-tallest building) show Marcin Banot, who vlogs under the moniker “BNT” or BNT fhujHD, free-soloing the building’s exterior dozens of floors […] Climbing SnowBrains | October 8, 2020 0 Comments