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This handout photo obtained October 3, 2018 courtesy of National Geographic/Jimmy Chin shows Alex Honnold free solo climbing on El Capitan's Freerider in Yosemite National Park, becoming the first person to climb El Capitan without a rope. - A new documentary follows Alex Honnold as he attempts a free solo ascent of El Capitan's Freerider in Yosemite National Park in California. Imagine climbing a 900-meter (3,000-foot) granite wall without ropes and almost nothing to grip, moving slowly and perilously upward for four hours. A brave soul named Alex Honnold completed such a climb -- and lived to tell the tale. Honnold was 31 when he pulled off the feat of scaling El Capitan, a vertical rock formation in Yosemite National Park in California, in June 2017 in a drama that is now the subject of a National Geographic documentary. The film is in US theaters now, in Canada starting October 12 and in the UK in December. (Photo by Jimmy CHIN / National Geographic/Jimmy Chin / AFP) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT "AFP PHOTO / NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC/JIMMY CHIN" - NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS / TO GO WITH AFP STORY BY IVAN COURONNE: New film documents terrifying Yosemite rock climb, daredevil who did it