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Shooting Alex Honnold’s Free Climb Up the 1600′ Sentinel

October 2, 2011 By Eric Reagan

Alex Honnold

As I was flipping through the channels tonight, I landed on 60 Minutes’ feature on Alex Honnold, who free climbs up huge rock faces.  He does stuff without a rope that no other person can do – or at least is willing to do.

The story alone is compelling enough to hear; however, 60 Minutes did a bang up job of capturing it on video with a mix of 14 ENG, DSLRs and GoPro cameras.  They mounted GoPro cameras on the rock wall, on the film crew climbers on the wall and even on Alex’s chalk bag belt (until he decided to ditch it mid-climb). [Read more…]

Filed Under: Video Tagged With: 60 Minutes, Alex Honnold, ENG, free climbing, GoPro, hdslr, video cameras

 

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