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Free Solo

Because, like, if I do all the work andI'm still like, "This is messed up," then maybe...

Because, like, if I do all the work and
I'm still like, "This is messed up," then maybe it's just not for me,
maybe its future generation, you know

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Because, like, if I do all the work and I'm still like, "This is messed up,"
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then maybe it's just not for me, maybe its future generation, you know.
Duration
7 seconds
Views
42
Timestamp in Movie
00:07:31
Uploaded
Jun 20, 2025
Genres
documentary, adventure, sport
Production
National Geographic Documentary Films,Little Monster Films,Itinerant Media,Parkes+MacDonald Image Nation

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Movie Summary

Alex Honnold attempts to become the first person to ever free solo climb El Capitan.
Or maybe just somebody who has nothing to live for. - Free Solo 00:04
Or maybe just somebody who has nothing to live for.
When I thought about El Cap years ago, there were question marks all over the walls. - Free Solo 00:05
When I thought about El Cap years ago, there were question m...
It's like I don't know about this pitch, I don't know about that pitch, - Free Solo 00:09
It's like I don't know about this pitch, I don...
If the ultimate dream is to solo El Cap, then I need a good map of what that will - Free Solo 00:15
If the ultimate dream is to solo El Cap, then I need a good ...
If I'm going to do it, Free Rider seems like the best route. - Free Solo 00:04
If I'm going to do it, Free Rider seems like the best r...
I feel like we should do what we did before which would be you lead the, yeah, - Free Solo 00:07
I feel like we should do what we did before which would be y...
I'm just gonna try to shoot this pitch and the traverse pitch and then - Free Solo 00:06
I'm just gonna try to shoot this pitch and the traverse...
The idea of going up on El Cap with Tommy Caldwell - Free Solo 00:06
The idea of going up on El Cap with Tommy Caldwell
Look at those fixed ropes the first climb. - Free Solo 00:05
Look at those fixed ropes the first climb.
Tommy's been a hero of mine since I was a kid. - Free Solo 00:04
Tommy's been a hero of mine since I was a kid.
I didn't technically have posters of him up in my room as a kid, - Free Solo 00:13
I didn't technically have posters of him up in my room ...
Tommy is the one that explored every aspect of the wall. - Free Solo 00:04
Tommy is the one that explored every aspect of the wall.
And most of the routes that he's put up on El Cap haven't been repeated because they're, - Free Solo 00:07
And most of the routes that he's put up on El Cap haven...
And then, ultimately culminated with the Dawn Wall which was his - Free Solo 00:06
And then, ultimately culminated with the Dawn Wall which was...
I mean possibly the hardest big wall in the world. - Free Solo 00:04
I mean possibly the hardest big wall in the world.
El Capitan is unbelievably huge, kind of unfathomably huge. - Free Solo 00:05
El Capitan is unbelievably huge, kind of unfathomably huge.
It's 3,200 feet of sheer granite. - Free Solo 00:04
It's 3,200 feet of sheer granite.
Looking at it, it doesn't seem right, it doesn't seem like you - Free Solo 00:07
Looking at it, it doesn't seem right, it doesn't s...
El Cap has obsessed generations of climbers. - Free Solo 00:04
El Cap has obsessed generations of climbers.
I think it was first climbed in 1958 by Warren Harding, and it took them 46 days - Free Solo 00:09
I think it was first climbed in 1958 by Warren Harding, and ...