Free solo documentary death. m. He was 46. Apr 2, 2025 · Local Free-solo climber falls to death at Nooksack Falls Family honors outdoorsman’s legacy of adventure and passion for nature April 2, 2025 5:55 p. In Free Solo, the filmmakers ask Alex Honnold, “Are you depressed?” He deflects. Alex Honnold faces the biggest challenge of his career, climbing El Capitan in Yosemite National Park. Nov 29, 2019 · If you’ve seen this year’s Oscar-winning doc Free Solo, you’ll appreciate the life-and-death gamble that climbing can be. Feb 25, 2019 · Last night, two of climbing’s biggest stars —co-director Jimmy Chin and free soloist Alex Honnold—took the stage at the 2019 Academy Awards and accepted an Oscar for Best Documentary Film Nov 29, 2019 · Rock climbers across the world have paid tribute to Brad Gobright after the renowned American free solo climber fell to his death on Wednesday. While Free Solo (2018) celebrates athletic triumph it is also a thoughtful essay on mortality, fear, and self-identity, as it probes into the heart and mind of an elite athlete in an extreme sport. “Free Solo” cameraman and documentary filmmaker Andrew Berends has died. News of the death of Swiss climber Ueli Steck, with whom he had climbed, causes Honnold to reflect on his own risk-taking, but Caldwell comments on how little it ultimately seemed to affect him. With Alex Honnold, Tommy Caldwell, Jimmy Chin, Cheyne Lempe. Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, co-director of the Oscar-winning film, posted a tribute to her “wonderful friend” on Sep 14, 2021 · The documentary 'The Alpinist' explores the death of mountain climber Marc-André LeClerc, whose girlfriend Brette Harrington has returned to the sport. He pursues it Free Solo, which means climbing without a rope and alone. Alex Honnold (born August 17, 1985) is an American rock climber best known for his free solo ascents of big walls. 13a, the first-ever big wall free solo ascent at that grade), [3] a climb described in The New Free Solo: Directed by Jimmy Chin, Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi. Chai Vasarhelyi (“MERU”) and world-renowned photographer and mountaineer Jimmy Chin comes National Geographic Documentary Film’s FREE SOLO, a stunning, intimate and unflinching portrait of the free soloist climber Alex Honnold, as he prepares to achieve his lifelong dream: climbing the face of the world’s most famous rock … the 3,000ft El A documentary about climbing solo up sheer vertical cliffs without safety ropes sounds too crazy-masculine to contain a gentle story of emotional awakening. Wiggins died by suicide in 2002. From 2015 to 2016, a film crew followed Leclerc as he solo climbed some of the most difficult and dangerous alpine climbing routes in the world. Brad Gobright, 31, fell around 300m (1,000ft) to his death in El Potrero Chico in Jun 20, 2023 · Yet in the end, he couldn’t escape his anguish even through free soloing. Chai Vasarhelyi (“MERU”) and world-renowned photographer and mountaineer Jimmy Chin comes National Geographic Documentary Film’s FREE SOLO, a stunning, intimate and unflinching portrait of the free soloist climber Alex Honnold, as he prepares to achieve his lifelong dream: climbing the face of the world’s most famous rock the 3,000ft El Nov 28, 2019 · Free solo climbing gained attention after the 2018 documentary Free Solo, which won the 2018 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. Nov 29, 2019 · A world-renowned American free solo climber has died attempting to descend the side of a cliff face. The Alpinist is a 2021 American documentary film directed by Peter Mortimer and Nick Rosen about Marc-André Leclerc, a free-spirited and little-known 23-year-old Canadian rock climber, ice climber, and alpinist. By his mid-30s, Alex Honnold had achieved Sep 10, 2021 · The Alpinist is about life and death, about what it means to live, and what it means to die in the mountains. Honnold rose to worldwide fame in June 2017 when he became the first person to free solo a full route on El Capitan in Yosemite National Park (via the 2,900-foot route Freerider at 5. Sep 27, 2018 · Jimmy Chin and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi’s exhilarating new documentary, Free Solo, focuses on one of these daredevils — a lanky, socially awkward 33-year-old named Alex Honnold, who in 2017 Free solo climbing (climbing without ropes or any other safety equipment) has struck awe in onlookers around the world, with climbers like Alex Honnold daring to scale insane heights. The film was produced by Sender Films From award-winning documentary filmmaker E. Oct 22, 2018 · For most of the documentary, the filmmakers do an admirable job of scrutinizing Honnold's plan, which is why it's so jarring when they stop. That was put in sharp focus this week by the news that world Oct 17, 2018 · An inside look at how the crew behind the heart-stopping documentary shot the incredible footage of Alex Honnold's death-defying climb. Dec 13, 2018 · From award-winning documentary filmmaker E. . ofsx bqlel ufps ithtnk drnz ehvz hsiun hgh muzgudc zrszd