Both Tommy Caldwell and Alex Honnold have pretty special relationships with Yosemite’s towering wall of granite known as El Capitan.
The 2018 flick, the Dawn Wall, documents Caldwell and climbing partner Kevin Jorgeson’s ascent of a route on El Cap by the same name that, until they managed it, was believed to be impossible.
Then, of course, there’s Honnold whose successful free solo on Freerider was ultimately put to film in the Oscar-winning movie Free Solo.
Well, never ones to rest on their laurels, last summer Honnold and Caldwell teamed up in an effort to set a sub-two-hour speed record on the Nose of El Cap.
In an interview with our own Joe Carberry last year, Honnold likened the feat to running a sub-two-hour marathon. “It’s the most endurance-oriented thing in all of climbing,” said Honnold then.
In their second attempt, the pair managed to scale the Nose in just over one hour and fifty-eight minutes, making good on their goal.
A forthcoming documentary puts those efforts to film, and if past ones documenting Honnold and Caldwell’s pursuits are anything to go by, it’s going to be good.
The Nose Speed Record is currently touring the country as part of the REEL ROCK 14 film tour. Additional details on a broader release are scant, but we’ll be sure to update here when that info becomes available.
