Black Diamond Presents: Next Go For Sure with Alex Honnold

Next Go For Sure follows Alex Honnold for a day of trad cragging near his home in the Lake Tahoe area. Honnold climbs an obscure splitter high in the Sierra Nevada alongside Carlo Traversi and Nik Berry; the short film is directed, shot and edited by Traversi. The camera work favors close, handheld angles that show gear placements, jammed hands, and the rhythm of a sustained crack rather than long panoramic hero shots. The film is framed around a domestic turn in Honnold’s life — the filmmakers refer to a nascent “trad dad” phase — and the climbing scenes read as a practical reminder that Honnold’s movement and crack technique remain sharp. It’s useful as a compact portrait of modern trad cragging: intimate footage of a splitter line above Tahoe, on-the-rock conversation about gear and sequence, and simple editing that foregrounds climbing details over spectacle.