Alex Honnold: ‘My new film is almost too much for some people’

The star of Free Solo is back with a new series featuring terrifying climbs - this time using virtual reality

The great promise of virtual reality lies in its potential to replicate otherwise unattainable experiences. And few in the physical world can match the experiences of Alex Honnold, the American rock climber who has distinguished himself with ropeless ascents up some of the world's most fearsome cliffs.

No one had ever completed a free-solo" climb of El Capitan in Yosemite National Park before Honnold famously did so in 2017, a feat that was the subject of an Oscar-winning documentary.