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alex honold is the foremost free soloist in the world he has free solid roots that no one else can to free solo means to climb without ropes or safety equipment one false move one slip and it's over the risk in free soiling is always to fall off and fall to your death i mean that's pretty straightforward my directing partner and husband jimmy chin is a professional climber and we were interested in making a feature-length documentary about his friend alex when chai and i first talked about making a film about him we were talking about a character study a general portrait of alex why he was extraordinary but we realized alex was dreaming of doing something much bigger much more dangerous the only thing that would justify making a movie with me is doing something that i'm like truly proud of to me the big dream has always been freestyling i'll cap that is the culmination of anything i can imagine alcap is monumental three thousand feet of sheer granite free soloing it would be one of the greatest accomplishments in the history of climbing but is it ethical to film someone as he risks his life when i found out alex was thinking about free soloing i'll cap chai and i needed to step back and take some time to really think if this was something we wanted to take on every journalist and documentary filmmaker goes into situations without knowing what happens next this is the truth of nonfiction you can be mindful not to put the needs of a film before those of your subject but how much precaution is we had this ethical question is he more likely to fall when we were there because we can be a distraction than if he is by himself i'm aware that a camera changes the dynamic in some small way and when the margins of success and failure are very very thin you just don't know what it's going to be that might tip the scale yeah buddy hey guys crested the mountain that was perfect i was like i was pretty sick mikey looks traumatized dude are you okay yeah it's a little stressful i won't lie [Music] alex was going to do the climb with or without us but we decided that to be able to live with ourselves filming it we needed to set certain guidelines first alex's safety was always going to be the priority and second we needed to protect the integrity of his experience to be able to move forward on this film the makeup of the crew was critical they had to be elite professional climbers who understood what alex was doing their interactions with alex had to be carefully managed and they had to remain completely neutral about alex's decision to make or not make the attempt to freesol cap [Music] even though we thought through every scenario carefully it was still difficult to film alex...