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Return to Sender: Pete Mortimer and the Genius of Sender’s Climbing Films
Posted by David Roberts on November 28, 2012 
There’s a moment in Sender Films’s new documentary Honnold 3.0 that is utterly terrifying to watch. At age 27, Alex Honnold has emerged as the world’s premier free-solo rock climber. In the film, he’s in the first leg of his “Yosemite Triple”—an attempt to climb the three biggest faces in the Valley, Mount Watkins, El…
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Last June, Alex Honnold made headlines, again, when he soloed three of the highest walls in Yosemite (Mt. Watkins, El Capitan, and Half Dome) in just under 19 hours, which included driving time in between the formations. Honnold’s feat totalled 7,000 vertical feet of climbing, with 95 percent of it was free soloing (in a…
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During the 2012 Outdoor Retailer Summer Market the action movie makers at Sender Films treated a VIP audience to a sneak preview of their signature production the Reel Rock Film Tour. With four features, each over 20 minutes, this seventh edition of the program includes appearances by a few of the top names in climbing…
Climbers Alex Honnold and Hans Florine Claim Speed Record on the Nose, El Cap – Interview
Posted by Mary Anne Potts on June 25, 2012 
See more photos like these in our Extreme Photo of the Week gallery. “Wow, I’m surprisingly tired,” thought rock climber Alex Honnold, 26, at this point while speed climbing the Nose on El Capitan with Hans Florine, now 48, to set a new record on June 17, 2012. “This was actually the hardest move on…
New Frontier: National Geographic Adventure iPad App – The Greatest Adventure Stories Retold
Posted by Mary Anne Potts on April 12, 2012 I had the privilege of working on the edit staff of National Geographic Adventure magazine for eight years. They were eight wonderful years full of big ideas, incredible challenges, and daring explorers, writers, and photographers—and that was just inside the office. When the magazine folded in December 2009, our team dispersed to find new adventures. Mine…
Meet the Adventurers of the Year: Climber Alex Honnold
Posted by Mary Anne Potts on December 23, 2010 Each day we will feature one of the 2010 Adventures of the Year here on our blog. Get to know them all in our photo gallery, then vote for your favorite for the People's Choice award—every day. You can even vote for a new favorite each day, if you can't pick just one. Photograph by Corey Rich The Climber Alex…
Photo: Alex Honnold Breaking Speed Climbing Records in Yosemite
Posted by Mary Anne Potts on July 22, 2010 Thanks to Tom Evans for this photo of Alex Honnold's record-setting speed climb on El Cap last month. Check out Honnold and other remarkable adventurers in our Today's Ultimate Adventurers photo gallery. We also need your tips! If you know of someone taking on an extraordinary adventure, please drop me an email at mpotts@ngs.org. Alex…
