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What if He Falls? The Terrifying Reality Behind Filming “Free Solo” | Op-Docs
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Alex hanold is the foremost free soloist
in the world he has free soloed routes
that no one else can to free solo means
to climb without ropes or safety
equipment one false move one slip and
it's
over the risk in free soling is always
to fall off and fall your death I mean
that's pretty straightforward my
directing partner and husband Jimmy chin
is a professional climber and we were
interested in making a featurelength
documentary about his friend Alex when
chai and I first talked about making a
film about him we were talking about a
character study a general portrait of
Alex
why he was extraordinary but we realized
Alex was dreaming of doing something
much bigger much more
dangerous the only thing that would
justify making a movie with me is doing
something that I'm like truly proud of
to me the big dream has always been
freeing ELC cap that is the culmination
of anything I can
imagine ELC cap is Monumental 3,000 ft
of sheer Granite free soloing it would
be one of the greatest accomplishments
ments in the history of climbing but is
it ethical to film someone as he risks
his life when I found out Alex was
thinking about free soloing a cap chai
and I needed to step back and take some
time to really think if this was
something we wanted to take
on every journalist and documentary
filmmaker goes into situations without
knowing what happens next this is the
truth of non-fiction you can be mindful
not to put the needs of a film before
those of your subject but how much
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