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El Sendero Luminoso ft. Alex Honnold | The North Face

The North Face · 11.3M views · 2014-02-12 · 6:12

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Overview

A short film of Alex Honnold free soloing El Sendero Luminoso, a 2,500-foot route in El Potrero Chico, Mexico, in a little over three hours with no rope. It was made by The North Face with climbing footage and music.

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It is linked whenever Honnold or free soloing comes up, as a gripping and frightening example of extreme climbing.

Recommended by 1 HN people across 2 months · HN mentions 2015–2017

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What people said

sgrytoyr · 2016-08 · Strong recommendation

I feel compelled to post this video whenever Honnold comes up. Here he is free-soloing El Sendero Luminoso: [VIDEO] He really is something else.

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sgrytoyr · 2015-01 · Strong recommendation

Fantastic achievement if they pull it off. Incidentally, Alex Honnold, one of the climbers interviewed in the article, is the star of one of the most frightening videos I have ever seen - him free-soloing El Sendero Luminoso: [VIDEO] Even though I know perfectly well that nobody fell to their death on that climb, and have done a fair bit of climbing myself, I can’t watch this video without having a powerful physical reaction. It’s mind-boggling what some people are capable of.

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arcticfox · 2017-07 · Reference

I really hope that guy practiced repressing the instinct to lunge at a bad throw when juggling. Extremely rare occurrence with such a simple pattern, but ooph! I feel like any of Alex Honnold's ropeless climbs deserves a link too, for example: [VIDEO]

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