Free solo climbing
Form of climbing without protection
Free solo climbing
Free solo climbing (or free soloing) is a form of rock climbing in which the climber (or free soloist) climbs on technical terrain without ropes or any form of protective equipment — all they are allowed to use are climbing shoes and climbing chalk (or ice tools and crampons if ice climbing). Free soloing is the most dangerous form of climbing, and, unlike bouldering, free soloists climb at heights where any fall can be fatal. Though many climbers have free soloed routes with technical grades that they are very comfortable on, only a small group free solo regularly and at technical grades closer to the limit of their abilities. The international profiles of some climbers, such as Alex Honnold, Patrick Edlinger, Marc-André Leclerc, Dean Potter, Alain Robert, Alex Huber, John Bachar, and Catherine Destivelle have been significantly increased by their free soloing activities, but others question the ethics of this and whether the risks that they are undertaking should be encouraged and commercially...
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