"Before you do it, do you like, write a note to your mom or anything?" Jimmy Kimmel asked Alex Honnold Thursday night, of his recent free solo of El Capitan. "No, that seems overly dramatic," Honnold replied. In a segment on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, Honnold explained his preparation ...read more

• By Kassondra Cloos
  Jul 14, 2017

Alex Honnold put one in the record books Saturday, after nailing the first ever free solo of El Cap, the iconic, 3,000 foot granite wall in Yosemite National Park. According to a National Geographic report, Honnold started his climb at dawn, and pulled himself up over the final ...read more

• By Kristin Hostetter
  Jun 5, 2017

The spotlight was never part of the plan. With his June 3 free solo of Yosemite’s El Capitan, Alex Honnold secured his place as the outdoor industry’s biggest celebrity—a height he never meant to ascend to. Even so, it’s a platform he’s learned to embrace. Over the past decade, ...read more

• By Corey Buhay
  Aug 1, 2017

In National Geographic's new 360-degree video, watch Alex Honnold free solo El Capitan in Yosemite National Park. Hear the crunch of gravel under his feet as he approaches the formation. Hear the wind as he moves from hold to hold. The seven minutes of footage is narrated by ...read more

• By Amelia Arvesen
  Oct 2, 2018

Surely 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 ...read more

• By Amelia Arvesen
  Aug 14, 2018

"Sort of an unusual shoot for me—turns out rock is quite rough when you don't have any clothes on," Honnold wrote on Instagram in a caption for a photo of him crouching on a climb in his birthday suit. The renowned climber—whose film "Free Solo" received an Oscar earlier this ...read more

• By Amelia Arvesen
  Sep 5, 2019