Professional rock climber Alex Honnold is the only person to have scaled Yosemite monster-wall El Capitan without ropes, a feat detailed in the Oscar-winning doc Free Solo—but he’s passionate about pulling people out of poverty via solar energy with his Honnold Foundation, too.
BY ANYA JAREMKO-GREENWOLD PHOTOS BY SAMUEL CROSSLEY FREE SOLO IMAGES BY JIMMY CHIN/NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC
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