2023-12-19 13:07:51
Alex Honnold is leading a six-week expedition to eastern Greenland to make the first ascent of one of the highest unclimbed rock faces in the world. But this trip represents much more than a sporting challenge. With the help of glaciologist Heidi Sevestre, Alex and his team are studying the impact of climate change on the glaciers, ice caps and fjords of this remote part of the Arctic.
Paris, December 19, 2023 – The climber Alex Honnold (“FREE SOLO”) embarks on an epic quest for unclimbed walls in one of the most remote corners of Greenland, a territory on the front lines of the climate crisis. Alex Honnold has always dreamed of exploring Greenland and its peaks. Today he attempts, along with world-famous mountaineers Hazel Findlay et Mikey Schaefer, to reach the summit of Ingmikortilaq, an Arctic sea cliff that no one has ever climbed that rises out of the frozen wilderness almost 300 meters higher than Free Solo’s El Capitan. For long-time climate activist Alex Honnold, this expedition is more than just a climb: it’s a chance to see first-hand the impact of climate change on a vitally important wilderness for the future of the planet. With the help of Dr. Heidi SevestreFrench glaciologist working for the Greenlandic Guide’s Arctic monitoring and assessment program Adam Kjeldsen and the famous adventurer Aldo Kane, the team is using special radar to measure the depth and density of a rarely studied section of the Greenland ice sheet in real time. “ Greenland Expedition with Alex Honnold » is a three-part scientific expedition, led by one of the world’s greatest mountaineers in pursuit of his life’s dream.
The first two episodes of the series will be broadcast on Monday February 5 from 9 p.m. and the last episode on Monday February 12 at 9 p.m. The episodes will be available the day following their broadcast in replay in the National Geographic corner on MyCanal for a period of 30 days.
A propos d’Alex Honnold
Alex Honnold is a professional mountaineer whose daring solo ascents of America’s greatest cliffs have made him one of the most recognized and followed mountaineers in the world. A gifted but hard-working athlete, Alex “No Big Deal” Honnold is known as much for his humble and self-effacing attitude as for the dizzying cliffs he scaled without a rope to protect himself in the event of a fall. Alex Honnold has been featured extensively, appeared on the cover of National Geographic magazine, appeared in international television commercials and his ascent of El Capitan was the subject of the documentary “Free Solo” directed by Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin and winner of the Oscar and BAFTA for best documentary film in 2019.
Episode summary
71 Degrees North – broadcast Monday, February 5 at 9 p.m.
The first stage of the epic expedition to Greenland begins. Alex and his team go up a huge glacier looking for signs of melting. When they find a “super mill” – a huge cavern in the ice – they use their climbing skills to explore it. At the top of the glacier, they face their next challenge: a sheer granite wall of more than 450 meters that even the team’s novice climbers will have to scale.
On the tightrope – broadcast on Monday February 5 at 9:50 p.m.
Alex and the team fall victim to deadly ice falls while making a first ascent of the Pool Wall, a wall more than 450 meters high. They then embark on the first crossing of the Renland Ice Cap, where they face snowstorms and deep, deadly crevasses. After surviving a whiteout, they fight their way off the ice before heading up an iceberg-filled fjord and catching their first glimpse of the great climb, Ingmikortilaq.
The Ascent – Broadcast Monday February 12 at 9 p.m.
The final leg of the epic Greenland expedition begins. Alex and the other professional climbers begin climbing one of the largest unclimbed walls on the planet, and discover that it might be the most dangerous climb they have ever attempted. Meanwhile, the scientific team obtains unexpected results on one of Greenland’s most important glaciers.
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