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From award-winning documentary filmmaker E. Chai Vasarhelyi (“MERU”) and world-renowned photographer and mountaineer Jimmy Chin comes National Geographic Documentary Film’s FREE SOLO, a stunning, intimate and unflinching portrait of the free soloist climber Alex Honnold, as he prepares to achieve his lifelong dream: climbing the face of the world’s most famous rock … the 3,000ft El Capitan in Yosemite National Park … without a rope.

Celebrated as one of the greatest athletic feats of any kind, Honnold’s climb set the ultimate standard: perfection or death. Succeeding in this challenge, Honnold enters his story in the annals of human achievement. FREE SOLO is both an edge-of-your-seat thriller and an inspiring portrait of an athlete who exceeded our current understanding of human physical and mental potential. The result is a triumph of the human spirit.

6:30pm: Film, followed by conversation with director Chai Vasarhelyi (via Skype)
Run time: 99 min
Directors: Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin
Producers: Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, Jimmy Chin, Evan Hayes
Cast: Alex Honnold
Free Solo
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One of the most arresting documentaries of the year...

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