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Free Solo

I didn't technically have postersof him up in my room as a kid, but it was like the same...

I didn't technically have posters
of him up in my room as a kid, but it was like the same deal, you know,
where I was like, "Tommy's the man." Tommy really showed what was
possible, free climbing on El Cap

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I didn't technically have posters of him up in my room as a kid,
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but it was like the same deal, you know, where I was like, "Tommy's the man."
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Tommy really showed what was possible, free climbing on El Cap.
Duration
13 seconds
Views
67
Timestamp in Movie
00:09:36
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.
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 ...
They had to drill bolts into the granite and pull themselves up. - Free Solo 00:04
They had to drill bolts into the granite and pull themselves...
And then ever since then, it's been the center of the rock climbing universe. - Free Solo 00:05
And then ever since then, it's been the center of the r...
I've spent 20 years of my life climbing El Cap but I'd never do it without a rope. - Free Solo 00:05
I've spent 20 years of my life climbing El Cap but I�...
Imagine an Olympic gold medal level athletic achievement, that if you don't get that - Free Solo 00:11
Imagine an Olympic gold medal level athletic achievement, th...
Imagine an Olympic gold medal level athletic achievement that if you don't get that - Free Solo 00:19
Imagine an Olympic gold medal level athletic achievement...
That's pretty much what free soloing El Cap is like. - Free Solo 00:04
That's pretty much what free soloing El Cap is like.
You have to do it perfectly. - Free Solo 00:05
You have to do it perfectly.
Today I am playing through a lot of different scenarios, - Free Solo 00:16
Today I am playing through a lot of different scenarios,
But then the idea of taking the rope away, you're just like, - Free Solo 00:10
But then the idea of taking the rope away, you're just ...
When you've been thinking about something for years, that's a long time to be, - Free Solo 00:08
When you've been thinking about something for years, th...
Especially someone like Tommy. - Free Solo 00:04
Especially someone like Tommy.