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Alex Honnold free solo climbing on El Capitan's Freerider in Yosemite National Park.
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Alex Honnold peers over the edge of Glacier Point in Yosemite National Park. He had just climbed 2000 feet up from the valley floor.
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Alex Honnold making the first free solo ascent of El Capitan's Freerider in Yosemite National Park, CA.
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Alex Honnold holds all of his climbing gear atop the summit of El Capitan. He just became the first person to climb El Capitan without a rope.
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Alex Honnold free soloing the Scotty-Burke offwedth pitch of Freerider on Yosemite's El Capitan.
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Alex Honnold free solo climbs El Capitan's Freerider in Yosemite National Park.
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Production during National Geographic Documentary Films Oscar nominated feature documentary "Free Solo".