If Alex slipped there, he wouldn’t have had time to catch himself. He had to be 100 percent.” Honnold traversed right, stepping on a few small edges, trusting his hands on slim cracks ...

Alex Honnold free solo climbing El Capitan in Yosemite ... Partially, this was memorising where he would place his hands and in what sequence. “But then the real visualisation is the deeper ...

American climber Alex Honnold has soloed The Phoenix (5.13a ... Pretty secure, though the initial corner climbing is a little too thin for me and then the upper tight hands are a little too tight.

Vinson is -4 degrees to -40 degrees (F), which presented quite the unique challenge for Honnold. After his successful summit, Alex noted “I felt shockingly bad. On the other hand, we had the ...