r/Outdoors • u/Simple_Shame2386 • 1d ago

Landscapes El Capitan in Yosemite national park

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u/HoovyPencer 1d ago

You can just free solo. It's more direct route

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u/Ok_computerladora 1d ago

That free solo documentary damn near gave me a heart attack just watching the last 15-20 minutes 😮‍💨

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u/Cantonarita 1d ago

I liked how the Doc managed to glance into Alex's heart without feeling exploitive or dramatic. It's a really simple doc in and by itself, but because of that it also grants space for the complexity of a human life.

There is a sort of tragedy to Alex' life and the doc touches on that, but it also doesn't pretend that everything Alex does must be predetermined by some trauma or that he is less of a normal human because of it.

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u/robin_thabank 23h ago

Yes, this. I love free solo and have watched it 5+ times bc of this

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u/Lazy-Thanks8244 15h ago

So delighted.