The Soloists

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  • The Diamond is Forever

    Steph Davis free solo climbs and BASE jumps.

  • Rebel without a Rope

    Michael Reardon was a brash, charismatic California native who briefly made headlines for bold solo ascents. A few years after this film was made, Michael passed away while climbing in Ireland.

  • Dirty Bird

    Derek Hersey was an iconoclastic free solo climber who lived in poverty, making bold onsite solo climbs of walls across the country, before tragically falling in Yosemite.

  • The Swiss Machine

    Speed alpinist Ueli Steck dances up faces in the Himalaya and the Alps, including his record-smashing ascent of The Eiger North Face. Ueli also teams up with fellow soloist Alex Honnold to break records on El Capitan.

  • Alone on the Wall

    Twenty-three-year-old Alex Honnold is taking the high-stakes sport of free soloing to new heights. He ventures ropeless up the mind-bending walls of Moonlight Buttress (5.12+, 1000 ft) and The North Face of Half Dome (5.12, 2000 ft).

  • Urban Ape

    Climber and comedian Timmy O'Neill monkeys around town, scaling buildings as he jokes with strangers, has a run-in with cops and freaks out a few innocent college kids.

  • Psicobloc – Part 1

    Austrian Klem Loskot and Brit Tim Emmett explore the spectacular limestone sea cliffs of Mallorca, Spain, climbing 60 foot walls unroped above the ocean. This is the Dose that introduced the world to Deep Water Soloing, culminating in Klem's first ascent of Loskot and Two Smoking Barrels, a route...

  • Psicobloc – Part 2

    Chris Sharma and Klem Loskot return to Mallorca along with Melissa Lacasse to explore new deep water soloing venues. After some close calls and monster falls, Sharma becomes a convert.

  • Vietnam

    Deep water soloing pioneers Tim Emmett and Klem Loskot explore the thousands of mysterious limestone towers of Ha Long Bay, Vietnam. Living on a traditional boat for five days at a time, they scour the endless maze of islands, searching for the perfect wall.

  • Honnold 3.0

    Upping the ante, Alex Honnold free solos The Phoenix (5.13) and the first ascent of Too Big to Flail (v11) before taking on the Yosemite Triple --Mt. Watkins, El Cap, and Half Dome all by himself in a day.

  • Brette

    Follow rising talent Brette Harrington on a global journey from her hometown granite in Squamish to the big wall proving ground of Yosemite’s El Capitan and onto a landmark free solo in Patagonia.

  • Es Pontas

    A raw edit of Chris Sharma's historic ascent of Es Pontas, the iconic arch in the Mediterranean Sea.

  • Dean Potter Free Base (raw)

  • Ueli Steck: A New Vision

    Ueli Steck learns to fly a paraglider and uses it to enchain multiple peaks in record time.

  • The High Road

    Nina Williams is chasing elite-level boulder problems that are 30, 40, even 50 feet tall. In this profile of an emerging star, Nina tests her nerves well into the no-fall zone, including a bold ascent of Too Big to Flail (v11).

  • Fly or Die

    Aerial samurai Dean Potter combines his two passions of free solo climbing and BASE jumping to create the most outrageous and visionary style of climbing ever conceived: The BASE Free Solo.

  • Above the Sea

    Ten years after his generation-defining ascent of Es Pontas, Chris Sharma returns to Mallorca to establish Alasha, the next-level deep water solo climb.

  • King Lines

    Follow Chris Sharma on his ultimate global quest to redefine the possible in the vertical world. Includes his first ascent of Es Pontas, the iconic arch over the Mediterranean Sea.

  • Dean Potter Free Solo

  • Valley Uprising

    A tour de force through 50 years of Yosemite's climbing counterculture. Emmy award winner, and Grand Prize winner at Banff and over a dozen festivals.

  • BASEline + FreeBASE

    Dean Potter takes big whips on a long desert trad route.

  • Urban Ape 2 LA

    Tommy O'Neill takes his urban antics to Hollywood.

  • Thailand

    David Lama leads a band of Euros up the overhanging limestone above the green seas of Thailand.