If Alex slipped there, he wouldn’t have had time to catch himself. He had to be 100 percent.” Honnold traversed right, stepping on a few small edges, trusting his hands on slim cracks ...

American climber Alex Honnold has soloed The Phoenix (5.13a ... Pretty secure, though the initial corner climbing is a little too thin for me and then the upper tight hands are a little too tight.

Alex Honnold free solo climbing El Capitan in Yosemite ... Partially, this was memorising where he would place his hands and in what sequence. “But then the real visualisation is the deeper ...

Interview with Americans Tommy Caldwell and Alex Honnold who from 12 - 16 February 2014 carried out the coveted first ... Wet cold gloves and rough rock took a pretty big toll on my hands. Alex: We ...

His name isn’t Alex Honnold. Meet Jim Reynolds ... afforded by cracks into which a climber would jam his or her hands and feet. As Reynolds climbed up the slabs, he placed dabs of chalk on ...