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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
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Alex Honnold boundering in a scene in Honnold 3.0; Video still courtesy Sender Films

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…