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Um, look at it, like, I mean, you know, think about it, it's freaking scary
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Free Solo

Um, look at it, like, I mean, you know,think about it, it's freaking scary

Um, look at it, like, I mean, you know,
think about it, it's freaking scary

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Um, look at it, like, I mean, you know, think about it, it's freaking scary.
Duration
4 seconds
Views
47
Timestamp in Movie
00:07:14
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.
I don't know, so I mean I've thought about this since 2009, like, each year since 2009, - Free Solo 00:10
I don't know, so I mean I've thought about this si...
So I'm like, "Uh." But the thing is I'll never be content, - Free Solo 00:05
So I'm like, "Uh." But the thing is I'll...
Because, like, if I do all the work and I'm still like, "This is messed up," - Free Solo 00:07
Because, like, if I do all the work and I'm still like,...
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.