{"id":156842,"date":"2020-04-03T09:52:24","date_gmt":"2020-04-03T16:52:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=156842"},"modified":"2020-04-03T09:52:24","modified_gmt":"2020-04-03T16:52:24","slug":"climbing-video-how-they-filmed-the-first-el-capitan-climb-with-no-ropes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=156842","title":{"rendered":"Climbing Video &#8211; How They Filmed the First El Capitan Climb With No Ropes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin, the directors of the Oscar-winning documentary \u201cFree Solo,\u201d discuss how they captured rock climber Alex Honnold\u2019s free solo climb (without any ropes, harnesses or protective equipment) of Yosemite\u2019s El Capitan in June 2017. The film crew was challenged to record his incredible achievement without affecting Honnold\u2019s climb.<\/p>\n<p>Free Solo is in open nationwide in theaters and opens in IMAX theaters across the country Jan 11. The movie was nominated for an Academy Award <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dtnjRoDa71Y\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Stoked News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin, the directors of the Oscar-winning documentary \u201cFree Solo,\u201d discuss how they captured rock climber Alex Honnold\u2019s free solo climb (without any ropes, harnesses or protective equipment) of Yosemite\u2019s El Capitan in June 2017. The film crew was challenged to record his incredible achievement without affecting Honnold\u2019s climb. Free Solo [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-156842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rock-climbing-mountain-climbing","category-video-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=156842"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":156843,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156842\/revisions\/156843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=156842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=156842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=156842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}