Alex Honnold: The Soloist VR

Re:Alex Honnold: The Soloist VR by marttt on Friday March 04, 2022 @05:32AM (#30552893)

There is a 4+ minute Youtube clip that includes the central climbing scenes from "Free Solo" [0].

Amazing guy. The National Geographic documentary had Hollywood-esque layers that slightly annoyed me (ominous music etc), though. A documentary by Werner Herzog about Alex Honnold would be fascinating; something in the vein of his 1974 "The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner" [1,2]. I would have loved to see more of the philosophical, introspective side of Alex Honnold in the NG movie. In case of Herzog's ski jumper Walter Steiner, it was very much there.

0: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnRoda7Ke2w

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Ecstasy_of_Woodcarve...

2: Full movie here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTdQ2fGlrq8

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Re:Alex Honnold: The Soloist VR by palindrome818 on Friday March 04, 2022 @08:24AM (#30554342)

Herzog doc about honnold would be dope. Honnold actually reminds me of Grizzly Man in alot of ways- in that you root for him but don't totally understand him. Interesting to think about whether Grizzly Man was more or less naive than Honnold- I think that's what makes them different. Honnold knows the risk he's taking, Grizzly Man didn't.

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Re:Alex Honnold: The Soloist VR by gmadsen on Friday March 04, 2022 @08:03AM (#30554099)

Meru is a lot better and interesting documentary in my opinion. Not Hannold, but same circle of people and ice climbing

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