Nothing like climbing a sheer rock face with no safety gear to get the adrenaline pumping.
Alex Honnold wowed the world by being the first person to ascend the 3,000-foot rock face of Yosemite’s El Capitan without a rope.
He ascended the peak in 3 hours, 56 minutes, taking the final moderate pitch at a near run. At 9:28 a.m. PDT, under a blue sky and few wisps of cloud, he pulled his body over the rocky lip of summit and stood on a sandy ledge the size of a child’s bedroom.
Here’s a glimpse of the upcoming National Geographic documentary about the historic climb with footage taken by Jimmy Chin.
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