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Originally Posted by Phanuthier
Oh yeah, Alex Honnold? I actually met him, he's friend of a friend. He is kind of socially awkward and a bird weird. The scarier one he did was Moonlight Buttress in Zion. At least Half Dome is granite, the rock is super solid. I tried climbing in Utah, that crap is brittle and the last thing you want when you are solo'ing 1000 ft up is having a hold or foot break. Up until 10 years ago, Moonlight Buttress was thought to be impossible to climb with a rope, let alone solo'ing it.
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Cool, is there a video of that?! Apparently he did it in 83 minutes too.
Just Googled, and it might be in the First Ascent video series. Need to get that.