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The "Thank God Ledge" in Yosemite National Park, California (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 days ago (2 children)

This is a well known picture of Alex Honnold free-soloing the route. Free-soloing means he is climbing without a rope. He has a chalk bag on a belt, but no harness or rope. There is a documentary that features this called “Free Solo”, if you could imagine. It’s worth a watch if you don’t have anything pressing going on.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Is this the guy with the brain defect who doesn’t know what fear is.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

if you don’t have anything pressing going on

Gonna go out on a ledge here and say it’s worth a watch regardless. It won an Oscar for best doc as well as a bunch of other awards. IMO it’s easily one of the top 5 docs of the last decade.

Very stressful to watch for some though. My wife loved it, but her hands were dripping with sweat from stress throughout most of the movie