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How "Free Solo" Filmed The First El Capitan Climb With No Ropes | Vanity Fair
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if your free soloing it is about perfect
execution or certain death hello i'm
choi Vasarely I'm a documentarian
my name is Jimmy chin and I'm a National
Geographic photographer and filmmaker we
made free solo together and we are going
to talk a little bit about how we
captured the first free solisten ll
captain
the thing about L cap is that it is huge
it's 3,000 feet tall and it's almost
hard for the mind to comprehend the idea
of climbing it without a rope was just
really beyond most people's imagination
Alex shows free-rider on El Cap because
even as a professional climber if you
are to be able to climb free-rider what
we call clean which is without falling
that would be a lifetime achievement I
think alex is certainly the first person
to consider it seriously well we were
always more interested in Alex as a
character study then as a free soloist
per se I mean Alex began free soloing
because as a kid it was scarier for him
to speak to another person and ask them
to be his partner than to go out by
himself and without a partner and hence
without a rope it was very dangerous but
alex was doing we really had to trust
ourselves and how we would handle the
material and how we would handle the
story and I think Alex did trust us with
that we understood of these 3,000 feet
that there were four or five pitches
that were critical to the story the free
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