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El Capitan

Alex Honnold
Mountain
El Capitan
Photo by Jimmy Chi, © National Geographic

Alex Honnold:

“El Cap is just a big vertical difficult wall: the granite is really featureless, it's very smooth, polished rock because it's glacially carved... It's just really technical. It's tricky. It's a really unique style, and the challenges are inherent in the climb.”