FREE SOLO

By E. Chai VASARHELYI, Jimmy CHIN

GREENWICH ENTERTAINMENT - as CONS

Documentary - Completed 2018

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 Capitan in Yosemite National Park ... without a rope.

Festivals
& Awards

Toronto - TIFF 2018
TIFF Docs People's Choice Award: Documentary
    • Year of production
    • 2018
    • Genres
    • Documentary
    • Countries
    • USA
    • Duration
    • 97 mn
    • Director(s)
    • E. Chai VASARHELYI, Jimmy CHIN
    • Synopsis
    • Winner of the 2019 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. From award-winning documentary filmmaker E. 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 Capitan in Yosemite National Park ... without a rope.

      Celebrated as one of the greatest athletic feats of any kind, Honnold’s climb set the ultimate standard: perfection or death. Succeeding in this challenge, Honnold enters his story in the annals of human achievement. FREE SOLO is both an edge-of-your seat thriller and an inspiring portrait of an athlete who exceeded our current understanding of human physical and mental potential. The result is a triumph of the human spirit.