Free Solo – Live beyond fear (DVD)

From award-winning documentary filmmaker E. Chai Vasarhelyi and world-renowned
photographer and mountaineer Jimmy Chin, the directors of Meru, comes Free
Solo a stunning, intimate and unflinching portrait of free soloist climber
Alex Honnold, as he prepares to achieve his lifelong dream: climbing the face
of the world’s most famous rock…the 3,200-foot 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
places his story in the annals of human achievement.

Free Solo is an edge-of-your seat thriller and an inspiring portrait of an
athlete who challenges both his body and his beliefs on a quest to triumph
over the impossible, revealing the personal toll of excellence. As the climber
begins his training, the armor of invincibility he’s built up over decades
unexpectedly breaks apart when Honnold begins to fall in love, threatening his
focus and giving way to injury and setbacks.

Vasarhelyi and Chin succeed in beautifully capturing deeply human moments with
Honnold as well as the death-defying climb with exquisite artistry and
masterful, vertigo-inducing camerawork. The result is a triumph of the human
spirit that represents what The New York Times calls «a miraculous
opportunity for the rest of us to experience the human sublime.»