Best Free Soloer Ever?
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Printed Date: 04 Oct 2025 at 11:09am
Topic: Best Free Soloer Ever?
Posted By: PowWrangler
Subject: Best Free Soloer Ever?
Date Posted: 20 Apr 2011 at 3:57pm
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Alex Honnold is a statistical abnormality. He appears to be far and away the best free solo rock climber ever. It's just really hard to imagine. For all you climbers, ex-climbers out there, you'll need some chalk just to keep your hands from dripping while you watch this...well except for Morales.
Hopefully this link stays live long enough for y'all to watch it.
http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMjM3MTcyOTgw.html - http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMjM3MTcyOTgw.html
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Posted By: James
Date Posted: 20 Apr 2011 at 4:41pm
| National Geographic had a big spread featuring yosemite this month and Honnold was on just about every page. Crazy stuff. |
Posted By: rockarolla
Date Posted: 20 Apr 2011 at 9:43pm
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Hey Dave thanks for posting had herd of his soloing but hadnt seen any video
I remember 10 years ago being WAY happy to redpoint Moonlight and do Halfdome mostly free with little aid. I could not imagine being up those places with no rope.
Hey it looks like he's having fun with it though.
and yes, free soloing does not impress girls....... bumming ! ------------- Dave Moroles. 253 241 8550. |
Posted By: huckin harms
Date Posted: 21 Apr 2011 at 8:46am
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yeah Dave, that just about made me puke my guts out.... ------------- |
Posted By: Blair
Date Posted: 22 Apr 2011 at 2:48am
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awesome. and yes dave, free soloing doesn't impress the girls, but then again, neither does whitewater kayaking. maybe a rice burner with the windows down blasting rap music would work... ------------- |
Posted By: JoesKayak
Date Posted: 22 Apr 2011 at 11:30am
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Posted By: phil
Date Posted: 22 Apr 2011 at 1:53pm
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Pretty amazing, especially that Moonlight footage.
I wish the video wasn't so sensational though. They make it sound like nobody has ever done any significant soloing before, they should at least mention things like Astroman, the Rostrum. |
Posted By: used2climb
Date Posted: 22 Apr 2011 at 1:57pm
In the "Not The Best, But Not Too Shabby" file, here's one of my free solos from when I lived and guided in Joshua Tree. Big Mo'. 5.11 ain't world class now, but it wasn't slouch, either, in 1993:
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Posted By: rockarolla
Date Posted: 23 Apr 2011 at 11:25pm
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hey thats awesome soloing 5.11 in 93' seems way high end to me.
and yes Alex stands on the shoulders of all the great high end soloest that has come before him. ------------- Dave Moroles. 253 241 8550. |
Posted By: up4air
Date Posted: 25 Apr 2011 at 3:31pm
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Wondering how they got the shots? Kept looking for a shadow of the photographer/helicopter/ etc. ------------- More water, please. |
Posted By: up4air
Date Posted: 25 Apr 2011 at 4:00pm
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Let's see... lives with Mom, otherwise lives out of a van, one wrong step and he's dead, yeah, other than those minor issues... hm maybe he'll eventually hook up with another climber. ------------- More water, please. |
Posted By: phil
Date Posted: 25 Apr 2011 at 4:09pm
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I'd guess they had somebody rap in from the top of moonlight. I don't think there's a route in the right spot for them to have climbed up alongside.
Other possibility is a BBQ shot from somewhere on the other side of the valley. I don't think helicopters are allowed in the canyon. |
Posted By: James
Date Posted: 25 Apr 2011 at 5:31pm
| I thought it might have been from one of those remote controlled blimps or helicopters. Thats not a joke either, I have seen those used in filming before |