VIDEO: 2-Hours in 2-Minutes | Watch Time Lapse of Honnold’s and Caldwell’s Record Breaking El Capitan Ascent On June 6, 2018, Alex Honnold and Tommy Caldwell climbed The Nose on El Capitan in 01:58:07, setting a speed record for the ages, and fulfilling Honnold’s “lifetime goal” of a sub-2-hour Nose ascent. Related: VIDEO: What if You Need to Sneeze? Free Solo’s Alex Honnold Answers the Important Questions… This is the actual record-breaking climb, bottom to top, in […] Climbing CragBrains | May 9, 2020 0 Comments
Alex Honnold’s MUM is the Oldest Woman to Climb El Capitan (Using Ropes!) Alex Honnold is a household name, following his insane free solo climb of El Capitan in Yosemite National Park, and the subsequent Oscar-winning documentary of the climb. Related: VIDEO: Heart-Thumping 360º Video of Alex Honnold’s El Capitan Free Solo Climb Not content with letting her son claim all the family limelight, his mother has an achievement of her own: she […] Climbing CragBrains | January 16, 2020 0 Comments
VIDEO: Alex Honnold’s ESPN Body Issue Cover Photo Shoot There’s not a whole lot to explain here. Alex Honnold got naked and let people take photos of him climbing. The cover shot is impressive. If you haven’t heard, Alex recently free solo climbed (no ropes) El Capitan in Yosemite, CA and it was arguably one of the greatest achievements in human history and there’s a movie about it called […] Industry News CragBrains | September 4, 2019 1 Comment
VIDEO: What if You Need to Sneeze? Free Solo’s Alex Honnold Answers the Important Questions… Alex Honnold uses the power of Twitter to answer common questions about climbing. Related: VIDEO: ‘What if He Falls?’ | Behind the Scenes of Alex Honnold’s Free Solo El Capitan Climb What’s Alex’s favorite type of climbing hold? Do all rock climbers live in vans? Once you get to the top, how do you get back down? Alex answers all […] Climbing CragBrains | September 2, 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
Alex Honnold Explained Climbing to Non-Climber Jimmy Kimmel Congratulations Alex! Your extraordinary talent inspires most and baffles some… Including Jimmy Kimmel! From birds bugging Alex “en route” to where it all started as “Mommies little monkey”, funny things happened when Jimmy Kimmel interviewed Alex Honnold about free soloing El Capitan. Alex also got to meet 50 Cent on Jimmy Kimmel Live! ” Whoa! I made it on @jimmykimmel! Pretty […] LadyBrains | July 14, 2017 0 Comments