Free Solo

One film about a climb with no rope, and the camera crew are in it too.

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Where to start with Free Solo

One film, a hundred minutes, and nothing to arrange. The one thing worth knowing before you start is that it is not only about the climb. A good part of it is about the people filming it, who are Honnold's friends and who spend the whole production aware that they may be pointing a camera at a man falling to his death. That tension is the film's second subject and the reason it is better than a sports documentary.

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    Free Solo (2018) Free Solo

    Alex Honnold climbs Freerider on El Capitan with no rope and no safety equipment. Directed by Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin, who is a climber himself, which is why the camera can be where it is.

Then what? Nothing follows it. If you want more of the same, The Alpinist from 2021 covers a climber who deliberately avoided being filmed, and it is by other people.

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