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Free Solo

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By Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi ’00

Published Dec. 14, 2018

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Free Solo follows pro climber Alex Honnold from his days of van-camping obscurity to one of the greatest athletic feats of our time: a rope-less, partner-less, "free solo" climb of Yosemite's El Capitan.

Published in the Dec. 5, 2018, Issue

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