He’s Back!
If you’ve seen any of the films he’s been featured in – especially Free Solo, which won an Oscar for Best Documentary – I don’t have to tell you that he’s an amazing athlete, an astonishingly high-level technician, and irresistibly likable on screen.
Free Solo (2018) was undeniably a great movie. (I mentioned it in my review of The Alpinist, a documentary about his fellow rock climber Marc-André LeClerc.) And I felt it deserved the Oscar and all of the other many awards it won. But, frankly, I found it stressful to watch him climbing up a sheer cliff, hundreds or even thousands of feet in the sky, barely holding on by his toes and fingertips, knowing that a single slip could result in death.
I thought that was the last I would see of Honnold. But I came across several filmed climbs he’s done since then, including HURT (an acronym for Honnold’s Ultimate Red Rock Traverse), a 35-minute record of him knocking off 35 miles of rugged desert terrain, 23,000 feet of climbing, and 20 named summits. Click here.
And here are trailers for some of his other movies:
