Alex Honnold

Alex Honnold is an American rock climber (born 1985) best known for free‑soloing very large walls — most notably his 2017 ropeless ascent of Freerider on El Capitan — and for a career that ranges from pared‑down trad crags to remote multi‑pitch expeditions. The films here map that range: short vignettes about movement sit beside long expedition pieces and behind‑the‑scenes accounts of documenting risk.

The selection shows different facets of how Honnold climbs and how climbing gets filmed. Watch Alex Honnold Solos The Phoenix and the Reel Rock behind‑the‑scenes cut to see the practical choices a crew makes when documenting unroped movement on a single, sustained pitch; compare those sequences to El Sendero Luminoso, which compresses a 1,500‑foot ropeless ascent into a compact visual study of scale and exposure. For trad technique and close‑quarters partner work there is Black Diamond Presents: Next Go For Sure with Alex Honnold, which favors handheld angles that make gear placements and jammed hands legible.

Expedition films expand the frame: Arctic Ascent (full runs and episode excerpts) and Alex Honnold Climbs Angola foreground approach logistics, objective hazard and scientific collaboration on very large, remote faces, while Of Choss and Lions and Wet Lycra Nightmare offer contrasts between unpredictable rock quality and modern Yosemite big‑wall redpointing tactics. Shorter pieces like Good Luck, Kid and the Magnus Midtbø edit focus on process—team dynamics, camerawork and on‑rock decision making—so a viewer finishes with concrete lessons about movement, partner management, expedition planning and the cinematic choices that shape how risky climbing is presented.