Free Solo
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Oct 30, 2026
Jim MorrisonGUEST
He'd be like...
Fitz CahallHOST
going back to El Cap you and I have talked talked a few times over the last few years like some of your memories and emotions from the free solo on El Cap have started to fade like you've told me that a couple times of like I don't quite remember it quite as well and that you know seeing the footage again will help you it'll kind of like bring that back well actually it's more like seeing the footage replaces the memory a little
Alex HonnoldHOST
bit because you see the footage you see the film so many times that eventually you just don't actually remember the real experience or you don't know if you remember the experience or the film itself because you're like for me at this point it's been almost 10 years uh i'm kind of like i don't totally remember a lot of things but you've seen the film so many times that you're like oh i think that's what happened and then you're like wait wait we filmed that part afterward like i don't know and then it just starts to blur together a little bit
Jim MorrisonGUEST
Yeah, we're going back this summer to film the rest of it too.
Alex HonnoldHOST
Yeah, the one descent.
Jim MorrisonGUEST
one little four-hour run.
Alex HonnoldHOST
Actually, so part of the reason that I was saying that I think Jim is in a better psychological place for this whole tour than I was, actually, so I did an event with Jim a while back for the North Face, and somebody asked him, what's next? Which was the question that I got asked all the time during the Free Solo Tour.
Alex HonnoldHOST
And I was always kind of like, come on, I just achieved this like 10-year life dream.
Nick EicherHOST
He joins us in just a few minutes for Culture Friday.
Nick EicherHOST
Also today, a new documentary follows a daring ski descent of Mount Everest and the cost of life on the mountain.
Elizabeth Chai VasarhelyiSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
How many people have eaten at our dinner table have died?
Patrick StewartSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
It might take a while.
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John StonestreetGUEST
And the angst that comes with that and the anger that comes with that, I think, is being reflected here.
Travis KircherCORRESPONDENT
And at the risk of being self-serving, I just wanna
John StonestreetGUEST
say, our good friend Oz Guinness did a darn good job of explaining all this in the first half of the Truth Rising documentary.
John StonestreetGUEST
I was watching some of these videos and looking at some of these protests and thinking, boy, his analysis of this really has aged well.
Anne ThompsonHOST
And leaving out inflation, it's in the top 10 of all time.
Anne ThompsonHOST
And it has, you know, passed such films as Free Solo, Won't You Be My Neighbor, and Inconvenient Truth, and the concert documentaries Katy Perry, Part of Me, and One Direction, This Is Us.
Anne ThompsonHOST
But it lags the Michael Jackson doc, This Is It, and the Justin Bieber one.
Anne ThompsonHOST
And it will never catch up with... which movie tell us which movie it's never going to catch up
Craig SangerGUEST
Narratively, there's a lot to struggle with with the on-camera subjects.
Craig SangerGUEST
And this is the team that brought you Free Solo, which was an Academy Award-winning documentary a few years ago.
Craig SangerGUEST
So it is a very well-put-together documentary that is going to spark some conversation because there are some hard things to deal with.
Craig SangerGUEST
A common review that I saw about this movie is that a lot of people were kind of upset about...
speaker_1HOST
And I understand the contradiction in what I'm saying.
speaker_1HOST
You're watching humans versus watching creatures.
speaker_1HOST
But at the same time, I think that Jimmy Chin, the director of this, who's, like you said, the guy that did Free Solo, I think he goes into it with a perspective of, you know, there's that – you hear people talk about that code of ethics of nature documentarians where you don't get involved in it.
speaker_1HOST
So a polar bear is going to eat a baby seal, and you think, oh, I'd like to save that baby seal.
Brad CopelandHOST
Like there is a very, it's very, very real.
Brad CopelandHOST
It's Jimmy Chin, the guy that, the action photographer who directed Free Solo.
Brad CopelandHOST
It's a documentary about this husband and wife team climbing Mount Everest and it turns tragic.
Brad CopelandHOST
And he said that it is haunting.
Jimmy ChinSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Every ounce of equipment matters.
Sonia MangatHOST
And the director says this film built on everything his team learned making Free Solo.
Jimmy ChinSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Ultimately, this film was, I think, the culmination of all of my experience as a filmmaker, as a climber.
Jimmy ChinSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Part of it is relief.
Jimmy ChinSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
This is certainly the most difficult logistically and technically complex film I've ever made.
Elizabeth Chai VasarhelyiSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
It's from the Oscar-winning team behind Free Solo.
Elizabeth Chai VasarhelyiSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
If you think about Free Solo, that was a 3,000-foot cliff.
Elizabeth Chai VasarhelyiSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
This is 29,000 feet.
Elizabeth Chai VasarhelyiSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
That's where airplanes fly.
LaraHOST
Welcome back to Watch the Film With Us, where we are talking about Cheryl's favourite documentary of all time, Free Solo.
CherylHOST
Yeah, I really do think it is my favourite documentary of all time.
CherylHOST
Fresh from watching Everest.
LaraHOST
Which is the most recent film from
CherylHOST
the creators of Free Solo.
CherylHOST
It comes out this weekend.
CherylHOST
for everyone who's interested in watching it after listening to this episode.
CherylHOST
But yeah, I think it's also a really great way to talk about some of the almost like the technical aspects of Free Solo as well, because with Free Solo, Obviously there was a moment where they were talking about, I think this was maybe halfway in or a third into the film, where they're like setting up the cameras and Jimmy Chin was like, oh, and then we'll put the camera here where it's like looking down.
Jimmy ChinSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
This is certainly the most difficult logistically and technically complex film I've ever made.
speaker_26SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
It's from the Oscar-winning team behind Free Solo.
speaker_26SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
If you think about Free Solo, that was a 3,000-foot cliff.
speaker_26SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
This is 29,000 feet.
speaker_26SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
That's where airplanes fly.
Scott ManleyHOST
And on the side of one section, there is a 3,000 foot high rock face.
Scott ManleyHOST
If you've ever seen the movie documentary Free Solo, where Alex Honnold is trying to climb this rock face, that is what this computer is named after.
Brad DavisGUEST
So walking back into building 453 and what we're standing on here is the underground duck bank for all this 13.8 KV power going into the building.
Brad DavisGUEST
So, you know, you're quite literally standing on 40 megawatts.
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