Free Solo

One slip and Alex Honnold dies. No ropes, no safety equipment, just fingers and toes on 3,200 feet of vertical granite. In June 2017, he became the first person to free solo climb El Capitan.

The Oscar-winning film follows months of preparation—practice climbs, relationship strain, ethical dilemmas facing filmmakers who might witness death. Professional climber-cinematographers captured 700 hours from impossible angles, creating vertigo-inducing footage. This deeply intimate character study explores what drives someone to pursue perfection where any mistake ends everything.

The climb is among the most suspenseful footage ever filmed. A meditation on fear, obsession, and the meaning of perfection that transcends climbing.