Free soloing means climbing with no rope, a genre that verged into American consciousness in the 1970s. In 2018 it blew up, with Alex Honnold's mind-bending solo of El Capitan and the award-winning ...

On the morning of June 30, Austin Howell, of Lombard, Illinois, was climbing without a rope in Linville Gorge, North Carolina. The 31-year-old first free-soloed a 350-foot swath of vertical sandstone.

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