{"id":8044,"date":"2019-02-17T23:20:33","date_gmt":"2019-02-17T21:20:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/?p=8044"},"modified":"2019-02-17T23:21:00","modified_gmt":"2019-02-17T21:21:00","slug":"free-solo-to-premiere-on-national-geographic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/blog\/2019\/02\/17\/free-solo-to-premiere-on-national-geographic\/","title":{"rendered":"Free Solo To Premiere On National Geographic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>ACADEMY AWARD\u00e2 NOMINATED AND BAFTA AWARD WINNING FREE SOLO TO PREMIERE ON NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>An edge-of-your seat thriller and an inspiring portrait of an athlete who exceeded our current understanding of human, physical and mental potential.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/FreeSolo_17.jpg?resize=500%2C333\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8045\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/FreeSolo_17.jpg?w=500&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/FreeSolo_17.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption>Alex Honnold free solo climbs El Capitan&#8217;s Freerider in Yosemite National Park. (National Geographic\/Jimmy Chin)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>From award-winning documentary filmmaker E. Chai Vasarhelyi and world-renowned photographer and mountaineer Jimmy Chin, the directors of \u201cMERU,\u201d comes FREE SOLO, a stunning, intimate and unflinching portrait of free soloist climber Alex Honnold, as he prepares to achieve his lifelong dream: climbing the face of the world\u2019s most famous rock \u2026 the 3,200-foot El Capitan in Yosemite National Park \u2026 without a rope. Celebrated as one of the greatest athletic feats of any kind, Honnold\u2019s climb set the ultimate standard: perfection or death. Succeeding in this challenge places his story in the annals of human achievement. FREE SOLO will premiere on National Geographic on Monday 4 March at 21:00 CAT. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>FREE SOLO is an edge-of-your seat thriller and an inspiring portrait of an athlete who challenges both his body and his beliefs on a quest to triumph over the impossible, revealing the personal toll of excellence. As the climber begins his training, the armour of invincibility he has built up over decades unexpectedly breaks apart when Honnold begins to fall in love, threatening his focus and giving way to injury and setbacks. Vasarhelyi and Chin succeed in beautifully capturing deeply human moments with Honnold as well as the death-defying climb with exquisite artistry and masterful, vertigo-inducing camerawork. The result is a triumph of the human spirit that represents what The New York Times calls &#8220;a miraculous opportunity for the rest of us to experience the human sublime.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAlex Honnold\u2019s Free Solo climb is an awe-inspiring testimony to the power of perseverance and tenacity, as he completes this incredible athletic feat. Watching him pursue his lifelong dream, climbing the 3 200 foot Al Capitan without ropes is both petrifying and exhilarating,\u201d said Evert Van Der Veer, Vice President and General Manager, Fox Networks Group: Africa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Free Solo - Trailer | National Geographic\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/urRVZ4SW7WU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ACADEMY AWARD\u00e2 NOMINATED AND BAFTA AWARD WINNING FREE SOLO TO PREMIERE ON NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC An edge-of-your seat thriller and an inspiring portrait of an athlete who exceeded our current understanding of human, physical and mental potential. From award-winning documentary filmmaker E. Chai Vasarhelyi and world-renowned photographer and mountaineer Jimmy Chin, the directors of \u201cMERU,\u201d comes&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/blog\/2019\/02\/17\/free-solo-to-premiere-on-national-geographic\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Free Solo To Premiere On National Geographic<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-television","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8044\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}