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Alex Honnold Solos The Phoenix (5.13) - Behind The Scenes
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I've been filming climbing for a couple decades
and one of the scariest things I've filmed
is Alex Honnold soloing The Phoenix
the slippery, steep, 513 crack
that runs for 130 feet
Nobody had ever soloed a route that hard in Yosemite
It was late spring, I had just arrived in the valley
to film with Alex
for a TV news show that was profiling him
We're all hanging out the first day
and there was a meeting with the rangers
called for the next morning at 9:00
Alex leans over to me, he's like, "Sweet!"
"That gives me time to go climb The Phoenix before."
"You wanna go up there with me?"
And I was like, sure!
Next morning at five a.m we drive up into the valley
The Phoenix crack sits high above this canyon
and right around the corner from it is Cascade Falls
Because it's spring, the waterfall is raging
To get to The Phoenix you have to rappel in
because the crack starts halfway up this wall
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