"I was never, like, a bad climber, but I had never been a great climber, either," he says. He participated in many national and international youth climbing championships as a teenager. He started climbing in a climbing gym at the age of 5 and was climbing "many times a week" by age 10. His paternal roots are German, and his maternal roots are Polish. ![]() Honnold was born in Sacramento, California, the son of community college professor Dierdre Wolownick (b. Honnold is the author (with David Roberts) of the memoir Alone on the Wall (2015) and the subject of the 2018 biographical documentary Free Solo, which won a BAFTA and an Academy Award. In 2015, he won a Piolet d'Or in alpine climbing with Tommy Caldwell for their completion of the enchainment (known as the Fitz Traverse) of the Cerro Chaltén Group (or Fitzroy Group) in Patagonia over 5 days. Honnold rose to worldwide fame in June 2017 when he became the first person to free solo a route on El Capitan in Yosemite National Park (via the 2,900-foot route Freerider at 5.13a, the first-ever at that grade), a climb described in the New York Times as "one of the great athletic feats of any kind, ever." Honnold also holds the record for the fastest ascent of the "Yosemite Triple Crown", an 18-hour, 50-minute link-up of Mount Watkins, The Nose, and the Regular Northwest Face of Half Dome. Speed record holder on The Nose of El CapitanĪlexander Honnold (born August 17, 1985) is an American rock climber best known for his free solo ascents of big walls.The first person to free solo a route on El Capitan.
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