2018 Directed by Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, Jimmy Chin
Follow Alex Honnold as he attempts to become the first person to ever free solo climb Yosemite's 3,000 foot high El Capitan wall. With no ropes or safety gear, this would arguably be the greatest feat in rock climbing history.
Walter F. Parkes Laurie MacDonald Evan Hayes Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi Tim Pastore Matt Renner Jimmy Chin Shannon Dill
National Geographic Parkes+MacDonald Image Nation Little Monster Films MacDonald/Parkes Productions Itinerant Media Image Nation
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Turns out the hardest mountain for Alex to climb...was love
Nah jk it was that giant fuckin cliff
Ugh, hell yes. Alex Honnold is one of the most interesting people alive. I’ve been interested in him before this movie so I was automatically going in pretty excited. This doc did such a great job at tapping into the psychological impacts his passion has rather than just the “OHH SHIT DUDE YOU COULD DIE”. Very ethical film as well. Overall just felt super engaging and had me doing a lot of thinking. But MAN, he is the shittiest boyfriend of all time lmfao. Maybe my favorite documentary of the year so far.
The great thing about cinema is that it allows us to experience things we would never be able to do in real life, like spend more than 5 seconds with this unbearable prick.
The idea that the threat of certain death makes this a more impressive achievement than the version that's merely still wildly dangerous and difficult but survivable is egregious, just patently absurd. But at least he gets to use it as an excuse to be a total dick that gets lionized here. This guy's not a samurai, he's a stupid asshole.
Alex Honnold, a 33-year-old free climber who scales the world’s tallest rock faces without rope or harness or anything else that might keep him from plummeting to an inconceivably awful demise, doesn’t have trouble justifying what he does for a living. “Anyone can conceivably die on any given day,” he said. He’s not wrong. But, on any given day, Honnold makes sure that he has a much higher chance of dying than the rest of us. On some June or July mornings, before most people are awake, Honnold has already climbed thousands of feet in the air and entrusted his existence to a bump of granite the size of his big toe.
It’s hard to imagine why someone would choose…
imagine climbing rocks for fun? could never be me! but this was actually so exciting... they got me
