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Film: "Free Solo"

Follow Alex Honnold’s attempt of the unimaginable: a free climb of Yosemite’s 3,000-foot El Capitan.

Saturday, January 5, 2019
7:00pm – 8:30pm
Hopkins Center 123 Spaulding Auditorium
Intended Audience(s): Public
Categories: Films
Fee required. Tickets required.

To “free solo” means climbing without ropes. To climb without ropes means that any mistake will be fatal.

When they hook Alex Honnold up to an MRI, they find limited activity in the amygdala, the brain’s emotional center—he’s a man needing more than daily life to activate him. And so he climbs. Already one of the most famous rock climbers in history, Honnold sets out on a multi-year journey to do the impossible: “free solo” El Capitan, the legendary 3,000-foot wall in Yosemite.

This vertiginous film, by Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin, uses an entire arsenal of mountain-film tricks to capture each perilous step. But, as with their award-winning climbing film Meru, this is a film about much more than sport—the filmmaking team explores the calculus of risk in our lives, revealing Honnold’s inner life and the powerful arrival of love into his precarious world.

D: Jimmy Chin, US, 2018, 1h37m

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