The goal is Taipei 101, a 508m-tall, 101-floor needle in Taiwan. Unlike most building soloists, he will not end up in ...

When most of us think of solo climbing we begin to think of compromises in safety, and while it is more efficient and safer to climb with a partner, there are plenty of opportunities for relatively ...

Honnold, 40, was the first person ever to free solo climb the 900m El Capitan rock formation in Yosemite National Park — a ...

Alex Honnold is scaling Mt. Fatherhood! The rock-climbing superstar — who specializes in “free soloing,” perhaps one of the most dangerous athletic pursuits on earth — has two tiny kids. But he tells ...

According to Collider, Free Solo, which debuted in 2018, depicts the life of Alex Honnold, an award-winning climber. Elizabeth Chai and Jimmy Chin follow the solo climber as he attempts the ...

Free soloing means climbing with no rope or gear, a historic genre that in the late 1970s, through the Yosemite-based John Bachar--at the time nicknamed Mr. Norelco, after a "cordless" electric razor- ...

Jeff Smoot begins his latest book, titled All and Nothing: Inside Free Soloing, by describing a moment in the mid-1980s when his life nearly came to an end. Back then, Smoot was one of America’s ...

Climber Alex Honnold is continuing to break records. The “Free Solo” star recently made the first known ascent of Ingmikortilaq, one of the tallest rock faces in the world. Honnold summited the rock ...

According to Rocky Mountain National Park officials, a 26-year-old woman has died after a 500-foot fall while free-solo climbing the Four Aces formation on Ypsilon Mountain's Blitzen Ridge on Sunday.

particularly unnerving, in large part because of what climbing media focused on before and after these fatalities. The first of these was the death of 25 year-old Jonas Hainz, of South Tyrol (in ...