From award-winning documentary filmmaker E. Chai Vasarhelyi and world-renowned
\nphotographer and mountaineer Jimmy Chin, the directors of Meru, comes Free
\nSolo a stunning, intimate and unflinching portrait of free soloist climber
\nAlex Honnold, as he prepares to achieve his lifelong dream: climbing the face
\nof the world’s most famous rock…the 3,200-foot El Capitan in Yosemite
\nNational Park… without a rope.<\/p>\n
Celebrated as one of the greatest athletic feats of any kind, Honnold’s climb
\nset the ultimate standard: perfection or death. Succeeding in this challenge
\nplaces his story in the annals of human achievement.<\/p>\n
Free Solo is an edge-of-your seat thriller and an inspiring portrait of an
\nathlete who challenges both his body and his beliefs on a quest to triumph
\nover the impossible, revealing the personal toll of excellence. As the climber
\nbegins his training, the armor of invincibility he’s built up over decades
\nunexpectedly breaks apart when Honnold begins to fall in love, threatening his
\nfocus and giving way to injury and setbacks.<\/p>\n
Vasarhelyi and Chin succeed in beautifully capturing deeply human moments with
\nHonnold as well as the death-defying climb with exquisite artistry and
\nmasterful, vertigo-inducing camerawork. The result is a triumph of the human
\nspirit that represents what The New York Times calls «a miraculous
\nopportunity for the rest of us to experience the human sublime.»<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"