The best day of Alex Honnold's life was spent in rock climbing.
has no ropes, safety belts or other protective equipment. It only relies on limbs to climb up to the top of the "Rock Climbing Universe Center" Il Chief Rock, which is 3,000 feet (900 meters) high. In the eyes of anyone other than Alex, this is definitely the scariest day in his life.
is either perfect or dead.
Alex did not dare to act rashly. Before becoming the world's first unprotected solo climber on Chief Rock, he made the determination for seven consecutive years, every time he went to the foot of the mountain to regret it.
was nominated for the 91st Oscar for Best Documentary Feature Film Award [Free Rock Climbing], recording Alex's journey to the top.
[Free Rock Climbing] 1080P resources have been released
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There is still a difference between "free climbing" and "free solo climbing". The former emphasizes that there is no auxiliary tool while the latter is unprotected. Climb without tools. To be precise, Alex belongs to unprotected solo rock climbing ([free solo]) rather than "free-handed rock climbing" in the translated name. It is the most difficult type of rock climbing and the top ten dangerous sports in the world. How dangerous is
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needs at least two focus points during rock climbing to ensure that you do not fall.
sometimes focuses on this, does it seem okay? At least it can be grasped;
sometimes is like this, you have to use one or even half of your fingers to clasp;
sometimes it is directly like this, and the bulge is not as big as the nail cover.
Look at it from another angle, is it a fear of heights?
For unprotected climbers, most of the time, all of their wealth and life are pressed on one fingertip and one toe.
During the shooting of [Free Rock Climbing], a well-known climber passed away.
Ueli Steck, who climbed the Himalayas without oxygen in 2012, is known for insisting on reducing equipment and supplies, and is known as the "Swiss machine". On April 30, 2017, when he challenged Mount Everest again, he fell from an altitude of 1,000 meters. According to reports, rescuers had to collect his "scattered" remains.
Watching the news, Alex couldn't believe it.
He said: "I know we are all doing crazy and dangerous things, but I always think he will survive."
As a documentary about extreme sports, [Free Rock Climbing] is done intuitively and realistically. It's so in place that after just watching the trailer (see the end of the article), foreign netizens begin to "excitedly" imagine how scared they can be.
But if it is only intuitive and true, it can only be a qualified documentary. Nominated for Oscar for Best Documentary Feature Film, IMDb8.4, Rotten Tomatoes 98% Fresh, Douban 9.1, [Free Rock Climbing] is obviously not a mediocre work.
[Freehand Rock Climbing] proves that people can prosper.
It does not have any preaching, and uses specific people and things to bring a kind of shock and power beyond nature.
This film was very successful in the selection of subjects, Alex Hornold, and his trip to the Emirates Rock.
Alex himself is a living legend.
Alex was born inIn 1985, I started climbing in an indoor climbing gym at the age of 5, and started systematic learning at the age of 10 and climbed several times a week. The reason why
chose to act alone: "Because I don't know anyone and I don't want to talk to anyone." At the age of 19, he dropped out of the University of California, Berkeley and started a formal rock climbing journey.
In 2007, he bought a Ford E-series van and lived in it for more than ten years. In the same year, he successfully climbed Astroman and Rostrum in Yosemite National Park in one day by unprotected rock climbing. Become famous in World War I.
Alex and his truck
According to media reports at the time
In 2012, he climbed the top three of Yosemite, Half Dome, and Watkins by himself in 18 hours and 50 minutes. The height is 2134 meters, and 90% of the whole journey is unprotected.
Hornold’s largest and most dazzling rock climbing so far
not only foreign media pay attention to him, CCTV-5 CCTV sports channel has also done a special topic for him-
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