In Free Solo, thrilling climb footage fights for time with pat psychologizing
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Alex Honnold is a climber, but not the ordinary kind: He free solo climbs extremely high, very dangerous big walls. Free soloing is a form of climbing that entails scaling a surface alone and without the assistance of any protective equipment. There is essentially no margin of error in free solo ascents; any mistake…