Free Solo, The Alex Honnold Documentary, Is The Year's Most Disturbing Movie
by Patrick Redford from Deadspin > Sports News Without Fear, Favor or Compromise on (#40J4W)
Over the first 12,000 or so years after Yosemite National Park's El Capitan wall was scoured out by glaciers, no human had ever climbed up it without a rope. Then, last year, Alex Honnold scaled the 3,000-foot monolith without assistance of any kind. It is an utterly elemental human achievement, and while people have"