"Free Solo" won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Film of 2018 for filmmakers Jimmy Chin and Elizabeth Chai Vasarheli, and we caught up with it this past week. It is the story of climber Alex Honnold who specializes in "free climbs", that is, no ropes, harnesses, or anything else mountain climbers use when climbing a mountain. These guys, use nothing but their hands and feet. Crazy!
This movie was about Honnold's attempt to be the first person to free solo El Capitan mountain in Yosemite National Park. Thirty-two hundred feet of sheer granite.
Yep. These guys are crazy.
I would highly recommend that you watch this movie. Not only to see Honnold's attempt (SPOILER ALERT: He makes it!), but to consider the fact that the people who were filming this were right up there on El Cap with him! How they did that is also a part of this movie.
And while we knew the outcome, I have to tell you that Marilyn and I were barely breathing during the last twenty minutes or so of the movie as Alex was making his climb.
Three Stars from The Grandstander.
And while we knew the outcome, I have to tell you that Marilyn and I were barely breathing during the last twenty minutes or so of the movie as Alex was making his climb.
Three Stars from The Grandstander.
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