Alex Honnold, free solo rock climber extraordinaire

[Mach1]

He should retire while he still can.

[ceyko]

He should retire while he still can.

Concur, or just use a little safety gear. Requires the same skill with safety gear, just won't splat as easily one day.

[UserX]

Requires the same skill with safety gear, just won't splat as easily one day.

Yes and no. The speed at which he climbs can't be matched with safety gear. Doing anything physical faster takes a lot more strength and stamina. The dude makes climbs in hours that takes others days.

[ceyko]

Yes and no. The speed at which he climbs can't be matched with safety gear. Doing anything physical faster takes a lot more strength and stamina. The dude makes climbs in hours that takes others days.

Why is that? Anchoring and deal with all the gear?

[UserX]

Why is that? Anchoring and deal with all the gear?

Yup, all that latching takes time. Plus you have to follow the anchors, he can go wherever he wants.

[UserX]

Here's another cool vid, his 60 Minutes feature. This dude is a bad ass.

[Strychnine]

Saturday he free-soloed El Capitan. Fucking nuts.

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/adventure/features/athletes/alex-honnold/most-dangerous-free-solo-climb-yosemite-national-park-el-capitan/

[Ratt]

Fuck that. A lot of climbers take more than a day to climb that shit, and he free soloed it in less than 4 hours.

[Sean88gt]

You can't appreciate it until you've seen it in person.

[Ratt]

You can't appreciate it until you've seen it in person.

It's pretty breathtaking.

[Strychnine]

Fuck that. A lot of climbers take more than a day to climb that shit, and he free soloed it in less than 4 hours.

Had to go look it up - 4 days is the average. Other pros can climb El Cap on various routes multiple times in a day, but this is just nuts. The NatGeo article called it the "moon landing of free-soloing."

http://www.supertopo.com/rock-climbing/Yosemite-Valley-El-Capitan-Freerider

[UserX]

Yosemite is still my favorite place on earth. I am going to hike Half Dome again next year, and my Dad is going to join me this time.

[Sean88gt]

Yosemite is still my favorite place on earth. I am going to hike Half Dome again next year, and my Dad is going to join me this time.

Same, and that's saying something considering I grew up in the rockies. Yosemite is just a completely different ballgame.

[Strychnine]

Yosemite is still my favorite place on earth. I am going to hike Half Dome again next year, and my Dad is going to join me this time.

Take me with you
Yosemite and Incline Village, NV are my two favorite places on this entire big giant planet.


I haven't been since last spring

[Big A]

I haven't been near enough, considering it's only 3 hours south of us. I fly over there and Hech Heche a couple times a year, and its all pretty majestic from 30k feet as well. Apparently there are falls now running for the first time in a generation, thanks to all the rain and snowpack run off.

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