“Because it’s there” isn’t the only motivation for elite climber Alex Honnold (Free Solo) in Arctic Ascent, a three-part documentary chronicling his 2022 Eastern Greenland expedition to ascend one of the world’s tallest unclimbed natural monoliths. The documentary series premieres Sunday, February 4 at 8/7c on National Geographic. On the grueling six-week journey to its faraway location, his team (including celebrated climber Hazel Findlay) gathers critical climate measurements desperately needed by scientists. Here, we preview the adventure’s three major milestones. 1. Pool Wall The first hurdle, featured in the series premiere, is a monolithic stone edifice called the Pool Wall, where falling ice is a hazard. The climbers try to shield themselves, but Honnold gets clobbered. “It’s like getting hit by an ice cube at high speed. It hurts, but it’s not going to kill you the same way a rock will,” he says. 2. Ice Cap Trek...
- 1/16/2024
- TV Insider
President John F. Kennedy and First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy are pictured while on the campaign trail in San Antonio, Nov. 21, 1963.
National Geographic’s 2023 fall and winter programming kicks off with JFK: One Day in America, the second installment of the network’s One Day in America series. Nat Geo’s slate also includes documentaries narrated by Angela Bassett, Jeremy Renner, and Awkwafina, as well as Photographer – a series spotlighting the work of iconic photographers.
Additional winter programming includes the premieres of Science Fair: The Series and Arctic Ascent with Alex Honnold. Returning series include Explorer: Lake of Fire, Lost Cities Revealed with Albert Lin, Trafficked with Mariana van Zeller, and Cesar Millan: Better Human Better Dog.
JFK: One Day In America – Premieres Nov. 5 on National Geographic; Nov. 6 on Disney+ and Hulu
To commemorate six decades since the assassination of President John F. Kennedy on Nov. 22, 1963, the Emmy Award-winning, critically...
National Geographic’s 2023 fall and winter programming kicks off with JFK: One Day in America, the second installment of the network’s One Day in America series. Nat Geo’s slate also includes documentaries narrated by Angela Bassett, Jeremy Renner, and Awkwafina, as well as Photographer – a series spotlighting the work of iconic photographers.
Additional winter programming includes the premieres of Science Fair: The Series and Arctic Ascent with Alex Honnold. Returning series include Explorer: Lake of Fire, Lost Cities Revealed with Albert Lin, Trafficked with Mariana van Zeller, and Cesar Millan: Better Human Better Dog.
JFK: One Day In America – Premieres Nov. 5 on National Geographic; Nov. 6 on Disney+ and Hulu
To commemorate six decades since the assassination of President John F. Kennedy on Nov. 22, 1963, the Emmy Award-winning, critically...
- 10/18/2023
- by Rebecca Murray
- Showbiz Junkies
World-class climber and Free Solo star Alex Honnold is mapping out his summer plans, and naturally they call for adventure.
The man who famously ascended Yosemite’s El Capitan rock face without ropes will be doing some mountaineering in Alaska with his fellow climber and friend Tommy Caldwell. And they’re taking the long way to get there.
“The two of us are biking from his house in Colorado to Alaska… [undertaking] a few very large, difficult climb objectives along the way. So, it’s basically a 2,000-mile bike ride with quite a bit of hard climbing, culminating in a difficult climb in Alaska,” Honnold told an audience Thursday at Sheffield DocFest in the U.K. He was Zoomed in by remote for a panel discussion with National Geographic executives who outlined their upcoming documentary projects, including several that feature Honnold. The Alaska trip will be filmed for a series tentatively...
The man who famously ascended Yosemite’s El Capitan rock face without ropes will be doing some mountaineering in Alaska with his fellow climber and friend Tommy Caldwell. And they’re taking the long way to get there.
“The two of us are biking from his house in Colorado to Alaska… [undertaking] a few very large, difficult climb objectives along the way. So, it’s basically a 2,000-mile bike ride with quite a bit of hard climbing, culminating in a difficult climb in Alaska,” Honnold told an audience Thursday at Sheffield DocFest in the U.K. He was Zoomed in by remote for a panel discussion with National Geographic executives who outlined their upcoming documentary projects, including several that feature Honnold. The Alaska trip will be filmed for a series tentatively...
- 6/16/2023
- by Matthew Carey
- Deadline Film + TV
Alex Honnold, the climber known for summiting El Capitan with no ropes in the documentary Free Solo, added another massive climbing achievement to his resume.
> Watch Alex Honnold’s uINTERVIEW!
Honnold shared an impressive size comparison showing how much higher Ingmikortilaq in Greenland was than his previous titanic climbs.
The rock face was almost 4,000 feet tall, and Honnold said on Twitter that he did the climb along with the British climber Hazel Findlay.
Hazel Findlay & I completed an epic first ascent of Ingmikortilaq, a remote 3,750-foot rock wall in eastern Greenland. For more on the climb, watch GMA and visit https://t.co/Mdgfm98G07. pic.twitter.com/TWQwHUPxbd
— Alex Honnold (@AlexHonnold) August 18, 2022
Honnold and the rest of the team had to travel far via air and water vehicles to the remote Greenland location and spent about five days hanging and securing ropes for the climb.
He said on GMA,...
> Watch Alex Honnold’s uINTERVIEW!
Honnold shared an impressive size comparison showing how much higher Ingmikortilaq in Greenland was than his previous titanic climbs.
The rock face was almost 4,000 feet tall, and Honnold said on Twitter that he did the climb along with the British climber Hazel Findlay.
Hazel Findlay & I completed an epic first ascent of Ingmikortilaq, a remote 3,750-foot rock wall in eastern Greenland. For more on the climb, watch GMA and visit https://t.co/Mdgfm98G07. pic.twitter.com/TWQwHUPxbd
— Alex Honnold (@AlexHonnold) August 18, 2022
Honnold and the rest of the team had to travel far via air and water vehicles to the remote Greenland location and spent about five days hanging and securing ropes for the climb.
He said on GMA,...
- 8/28/2022
- by Jacob Linden
- Uinterview
Climber Alex Honnold is continuing to break records. The “Free Solo” star recently made the first known ascent of Ingmikortilaq, one of the tallest rock faces in the world.
Honnold summited the rock on Tuesday with elite climber Hazel Findlay after a five-day climb that included some severe icy weather conditions, according to NatGeo. The climb was filmed for his upcoming Disney+ National Geographic series “On the Edge With Alex Honnold.”
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Ingmikortilaq is a 3,750-foot, 3-million-year-old monolith that rises directly from the Nordvestfjord in Greenland, meaning that Honnold and Findlay had to approach ocean-up style. This means they had to begin their climb from a dingy in the water that they’d rowed from a nearby basecamp on land.
One of Honnold’s previous groundbreaking climbs was chronicled in the 2018 film “Free Solo.
Honnold summited the rock on Tuesday with elite climber Hazel Findlay after a five-day climb that included some severe icy weather conditions, according to NatGeo. The climb was filmed for his upcoming Disney+ National Geographic series “On the Edge With Alex Honnold.”
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Ingmikortilaq is a 3,750-foot, 3-million-year-old monolith that rises directly from the Nordvestfjord in Greenland, meaning that Honnold and Findlay had to approach ocean-up style. This means they had to begin their climb from a dingy in the water that they’d rowed from a nearby basecamp on land.
One of Honnold’s previous groundbreaking climbs was chronicled in the 2018 film “Free Solo.
- 8/18/2022
- by Katie Campione
- The Wrap
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