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Alex Honnold sat down with WIRED to answer a few questions posed from random internet strangers. He delivered some interesting responses.

Alex Honnold (August 17, 1985) is an American climber known primarily for his big wall free solo ascents, largely in Yosemite National Park, California. Honnold was born to Charles Honnold and Dierdre ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Alex Honnold knows a thing about passion and challenges. Since his legendary ropeless ascent up Yosemite’s El Capitan in “ Free Solo,” the professional rock climber has taken on a ...

After feeding the collective fear of heights with “Free Solo,” climber Alex Honnold sets his sights on tackling one of the highest unclimbed cliff faces on the planet, while delivering a ...

1. Alex Honnold did the Rim-to-Rim-to-Rim in the Grand Canyon in two big steps. 2. Alex Honnold hand-jammed the entire Monster Off-Width on Freerider. 3. Alex Honnold has paddled a whitewater kayak ...

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Alex Honnold is climbing into the podcast world with Climbing Gold, which will tell stories from some of the all-time greats. Finding your passion early in life is a rarity. Turning a childlike ...

Alex Honnold is an athlete who likes to scale skyscrapers, cliffs, and walls — all without using ropes or harnesses. The 32 year old California native is the subject of a new National Geographic movie ...

“Can you button this?” Alex Honnold, one of the best rock climbers in the world, is holding his wrist out to me, so I can help him with the cuffs of his tuxedo shirt. “I can’t do buttons,” he says.

Alex Honnold was preparing for the biggest climb of his life when he started to fall for her. She’d come up to him after one of his book tour stops, this buoyant spirit who seemed different from ...