Honored Athlete: Alex Honnold Sport Category: Free Solo Climbing Date of Event: June 3, 2017 and June 6, 2018

As the years pass by, more and more non-traditional sports are being introduced and mainstreamed into the world. Bouldering, free solo climbing, or free soloing is the act of either rock or ice-climbing without any ropes, equipment, harness, or support other than your own bare hands and body. In the midst of the glorious Yosemite Park in California, is El Captain – a 3,200 feet high of pure granite, the ultimate rock-climbing summit and goal for professional climber Alex Honnold. This aspiration seemed so absurd to so many people, that even Honnold’s sponsors pulled away since they didn’t want to support something so risky. Claimed to be one of “The Greatest Athletic Achievements Of The Decade”, in 2017 Honnold was the only person at the time, to have successfully free-soloed all the way to the top of El Captain – and in 3 hours and 56 minutes, no less. A year later, he challenged himself to beat his own record, and completed the route with a fellow climber, Tommy Cadwell, in under two hours!

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