Documentary about Las Vegas free climber opens in Imax

By Christopher Lawrence / Las Vegas Review-Journal

January 9, 2019 - 9:07 am

Alex Honnold making the first free solo ascent of El Capitan's Freerider in Yosemite National Park, California. (National Geographic/Jimmy Chin)

Alex Honnold making the first free solo ascent of El Capitan's Freerider in Yosemite National Park, California. (National Geographic/Jimmy Chin)

If you missed “Free Solo” on the big screen last fall, you can see it on the really big screen starting Friday.

The documentary, which follows climber Alex Honnold, who moved to Las Vegas in early 2017, kicks off a one-week run in the Imax theaters at Town Square and Red Rock.

“Free Solo” chronicles Honnold’s history-making climb as he scales the face of El Capitan, the 3,200-foot vertical rock in Yosemite National Park, without a rope.

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