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What if He Falls? The Terrifying Reality Behind Filming Free Solo Op-Docs

What if He Falls? The Terrifying Reality Behind Filming Free Solo Op-Docs

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In 2017, when Alex Honnold made his stunning free-solo ascent of Yosemites El Capitan, he was taking an unimaginable risk: nearly three thousand feet of climbing without any ropes or safety equipment. But was the climb made even riskier by the filmmakers who accompanied him? In What if He Falls? filmmakers Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin take us inside the process of documenting Honnolds quest for climbing glory and the ethical calculus of filming a friend who could, with the slip of a finger, plummet to his death.
Date: 2020-08-15

Comments and reviews: 10


Dont get it twisted, this is one of if not THE greatest athletic and human achievement of all time. Actually, on second thought, this is on par with the moon landing and it is criminal that it is not being talked about enough around the world. This feat should be a proof of the level the human body can delivered.
7, 569 ft tall with NO ropes, youve got to be kidding me and I dont think people realize the sheer magnitude of this yet. 7, 569 ft.

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That moment you realize he is actually a clinical psychopath and the reason he takes ridiculous risks is because his empathy centers in his brain don't fire properly. He can climb a mountain yes. But he can also gut a little girl to pieces without a care. Watch who you praise.
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I can only say
I am in awe of how amazing humans truly are
I shed tears it was so emotional seeing him top El Capitan
My grandfather took me camping there forever ago
If you have never seen it and half dome you cant understand its magnitude

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To do something that no human has done before is nice and all, but please do something that a human needs to do or benefits from lol
Like he could've gone to the top with a helicopter, less risk, much easier and achieves the same thing duh

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Why? Just why risk one's life line this? What's the benefit when one is dead? If he continues like this (which it seems he can't help it, it's only a matter of time when he is going to have an accident. Probability will turn into statistics.
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The most bizarre thing is that the scariest point is when he is at the top; he has just finished climbing the mountain and does NOT walk away from the ledge. Just turns around to look. That is too much tempting faith for my taste.
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I was at the LA premier of this film with Alex and the film crew in the audience to do a Q&A after so I knew he survived, but I was sill on the edge of my seat scared out of my wits to watch him do it.
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His spirit was unique in it all. knowledgeable, concentrated, fearless. detached from all but the focus on the task. The secret of self-mastery is self-forgetfulness. Shoghi Effendi, Baha'i Faith
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Alex Honnold was never in any danger while free soloing El Cap.
because if he fell, his enormous balls would completely absorb all of the kinetic energy upon impact.

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Alex is the kind of guy that if he were to fall hed fall silent humble and classy hes 1 of a kind whether he likes it or not Mr Alexnobigdeal
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