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My foot is improving, but it still swells up a bit
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My foot is improving, butit still swells up a bit

My foot is improving, but
it still swells up a bit

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My foot is improving, but it still swells up a bit.
Duration
6 seconds
Views
70
Timestamp in Movie
00:41:45
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.
If you look at soloing El Cap objectively, there are probably six pitches that - Free Solo 00:07
If you look at soloing El Cap objectively, there are probabl...
And then Freeblast, Pitch 6, being the one I fell off of, - Free Solo 00:07
And then Freeblast, Pitch 6, being the one I fell off of,
Then the down climb to the Hollow Flake. - Free Solo 00:04
Then the down climb to the Hollow Flake.
And then the Monster Offwidth, - Free Solo 00:07
And then the Monster Offwidth,
When you're in the Monster Offwidth, some part of you is always being - Free Solo 00:07
When you're in the Monster Offwidth, some part of you i...
Imagine like the worst type of Pilates class in the whole world, - Free Solo 00:16
Imagine like the worst type of Pilates class in the whole wo...
The Enduro Corner, in and of itself, would have been the most difficult part of - Free Solo 00:07
The Enduro Corner, in and of itself, would have been the mos...
Your feet aren't on any specific holds. - Free Solo 00:04
Your feet aren't on any specific holds.
What makes your feet stay to the wall is the amount of pressure that you - Free Solo 00:06
What makes your feet stay to the wall is the amount of press...
The harder you pull with your hands, the more your feet stick. - Free Solo 00:04
The harder you pull with your hands, the more your feet stic...
The most demanding for your arms on the whole route. - Free Solo 00:04
The most demanding for your arms on the whole route.
And you've climbed 2,500 feet to get to the Enduro Corner, so you're pretty fatigued. - Free Solo 00:05
And you've climbed 2,500 feet to get to the Enduro Corn...
But the piece that I've always worried about the most is the crux, the hardest part. - Free Solo 00:05
But the piece that I've always worried about the most i...
To get past the crux, you have climb either the Boulder Problem or the Teflon Corner. - Free Solo 00:07
To get past the crux, you have climb either the Boulder Prob...
2,000 off the ground, each of which I've fallen off many times with a rope. - Free Solo 00:05
2,000 off the ground, each of which I've fallen off man...
The Teflon Corner, which is basically like a 90-degree corner of glass, - Free Solo 00:08
The Teflon Corner, which is basically like a 90-degree corne...
Pushing against the two walls of it, with my feet on glass, my palms on glass, - Free Solo 00:11
Pushing against the two walls of it, with my feet on glass, ...
And then I imagine 2,500 feet of air beneath my feet, you're, like, - Free Solo 00:07
And then I imagine 2,500 feet of air beneath my feet, you�...
The alternative is the Boulder Problem. - Free Solo 00:04
The alternative is the Boulder Problem.
You've got your right hand on a crimp, left hand on a side pole, - Free Solo 00:09
You've got your right hand on a crimp, left hand on a s...