Arc'teryx Presents: Free as Can Be

Free as Can Be follows Jordan Cannon and Mark Hudon on a sequence of free-climbing attempts on El Capitan in Yosemite Valley, Yosemite National Park. The film is explicit about the mechanics of big-wall free climbing — hauling systems, multi-pitch linking, and the physical demand of sustained crack and face climbing on a 3,000‑foot granite wall. El Capitan is presented as the place it is: a big‑wall objective whose hardest free pitches sit at the upper end of the Yosemite scale (free difficulties on El Capitan routes can approach the low 5.14s), and the film calls attention to technical sections named in the footage such as the Teflon Corner and the Enduro Corner. The movie is as much about partnership and process as it is about hard moves. It documents separate attempts a week apart — extended multi‑day sequences of Hudon’s push and Cannon’s follow‑up — and dwells on the decisions, belays, and trust that make a big‑wall free ascent possible. For viewers who climb, the value is in the measured, tactical depiction of long‑route climbing and the way the film records an older climber working toward a long-held objective alongside a younger partner, all on one of America’s most storied granite faces.