5 Extreme Sports That Look Like a Death Wish

Free Soloing – Climbing With No Rope

Free soloing means climbing a rock face with no rope, no harness, and no safety net. One slip, one bad hold, one moment of hesitation, and you’re dead. Alex Honnold’s free solo climb of El Capitan — a 3,000-foot granite wall in Yosemite — was documented in the Oscar-winning film Free Solo. Watching it is genuinely difficult. Doing it is a different level of human.