Alex Honnold & Tommy Caldwell Speed Climb The Nose - Epic Timelapse!
On June 6, 2018, Alex Honnold and Tommy Caldwell made history by climbing The Nose on El Capitan in just 1 hour, 58 minutes, and 7 seconds — smashing the speed record and achieving Honnold's lifelong dream of a sub-2-hour ascent. This short but stunning film captures that record-breaking effort from bottom to top in a single, continuous timelapse shot, compressing one of the greatest athletic achievements in climbing history into under three minutes. Watching two of the world's greatest climbers move in perfect synchrony up 3,000 feet of Yosemite granite is mesmerizing — the timelapse format makes the audacity of their pace viscerally real in a way that statistics alone never could. If this taste leaves you wanting more, the full hour-long documentary from Reel Rock 14 tells the complete story behind this legendary day on El Cap.
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On June 6, 2018, Alex Honnold and Tommy Caldwell climbed The Nose on El Capitan in 01:58:07, setting a speed record for the ages, and fulfilling Honnold’s lifetime goal of a sub-2-hour Nose ascent. This is the actual record breaking climb, bottom to top, in one continuous time-lapse shot. For the whole story, watch our award-winning, hour-long documentary, "The Nose Speed Record," part of REEL ROCK 14. Download here: https://reelrocktour.com/collections/films