As free as it gets, 63-year-old Mark Hudon tries to climb the Big Wall route Freerider on El Capitan. A life goal, for the realization of which the 25-year-old Jordan Cannon dedicates a whole year of his time. Free as can be documents the great undertaking and the even greater friendship behind it.
Sam Anthamatten has mastered several types of alpinism at the highest level. With his Valais colleague Jérémie Heitz, he has climbed six thousand meters in freeride style.
Finally the long wait comes to an end. The film about the historic free-solo on-route of the route freeriders on El Capitan by Alex Honnold comes into the cinemas.
The film crew of Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, Jimmy Chin, Evan Hayes and Shannon Dill won last Sunday's Oscar for the documentary Free Solo on Alex Honnold's historic ascent of the Route Freerider at El Capitan.
A year ago in June, the American Alex Honnold wrote climbing history with the free solo ascent of the Freerider route on El Capitan. The historic visit was...