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Alex Honnold Climbs Yosemites El Capitan Without a Rope

YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, CALIFORNIA—Renowned rock climber Alex Honnold on Saturday became the first person to scale the iconic nearly 3,000-foot granite wall known as El Capitan without using ropes or other safety gear, completing what may be the greatest feat of pure rock climbing in the history of the sport.

He ascended the peak in 3 hours, 56 minutes, taking the final moderate pitch at a near run. At 9:28 a.m. PDT, under a blue sky and few wisps of cloud, he pulled his body over the rocky lip of summit and stood on a sandy ledge the size of a child’s bedroom.

Honnold began his historic rope-less climb—a style known as “free soloing”—in the pink light of dawn at 5:32 a.m. He had spent the night in the customized van that serves as his mobile base camp, risen in the dark, dressed in his favorite red t-shirt and cutoff nylon pants, and eaten his standard breakfast of oats, flax, chia seeds, and blueberries, before driving to El Capitan Meadow.
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His free rope climb of The Shining Path in Mexico

 
hard to free climb a sheer face with your nuts always getting in the way
 
I read he's a van driving van living nomad who drives around and climbs mountains
 
i thought he did this years ago

honnold is an incredible dude, but i can see his life ending in only one way
but he does what he loves, and that's better than most of us
 
Reggs said:
Yeah, it's pretty stupid with the risk/reward. Same thing with people who skateboarding tricks a lot.
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I think a lot of these guys would think sitting on your ass all day is a bigger risk than going out and doing something awesome that may kill you.
 
I think the alternatives to climbing a fucking mountain without ropes go beyond "sitting on your ass all day."
 
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