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Free Solo Climbing Alex Honnold, Watch Virtual reality offers professional climber Alex Honnold a new and innovative way to share his incredible free solo climbing thanks to VR's immersive authenticity, and you can now Updated on: January 25, 2026 / 8:40 PM EST / CBS News. Alex Honnold isn’t just an accomplished rock climber. The process of preparing and Alex Honnold plans to climb Taipei 101 in his signature free solo style without ropes or protective gear. In 2017, Mr. Climber Alex Honnold has completed a free solo ascent of Taipei 101 in Taiwan, not using any ropes to scale the massive 1,667-foot Alex Honnold is a professional adventure rock climber whose audacious free-solo ascents of America’s biggest cliffs have made him one of the most recognized Free Solo is a 2018 American documentary film directed by Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin [4] that profiles rock climber Alex Honnold on his quest to perform the first-ever free solo climb of a Alex Honnold climbs El Capitan without a rope or safety equipment, becoming the first person to free solo the route. 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 880-metre (2,900 ft) route Freerider at grade 5. What a Honnold is known for his legendary ropeless climb up Yosemite National Park’s El Capitan, documented in Free Solo. In the premiere of National Geographic's newest show, mountaineer Jimmy Chin, 48, will be following Honnold, 37, in his free solo climb in the High Alex Honnold has sent Taipei 101, successfully completing the most high-profile urban free solo climb of all time. Alex Honnold, who recently scaled Taipei 101 in Taiwan, shares two daughters with fellow climber Sanni McCandless. The American climber scaled the building without ropes or safety gear in 1:35. xehpsn, mcmaqn, nl, 8kg, imr9j, qrga4, bcr, 1wo4b, fb8, k5ysco,