Alex Honnold Freeing the “Galapagos” Pitch (5.13b) on El Nino (Raw Footage!)
Honnold gets the beta a bit wrong 20 feet run out, finds a no-hands knee bar, and plays leapfrog twice with the photographer---and still sends! See here for more background ?
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Great raw footage from Justin Lawrence (@steeppathproductions) of Alex Honnold freeing the 5.13b “Galapagos” pitch during his and Brad Gobright’s second-free ascent of the Pineapple Express variation to El Niño (VI 5.13c) , El Capitan, June 10, 2019.
Filmed by Justin Lawrence (@steeppathproductions)