Free soloing, it's such a mental game. It's perfection or death.

I've known Alex for 10 years and I've climbed with him all over the world.

His climbing 1,000 feet off the ground with no rope.

It is pure.

Here's a human pushing all of the limits

and pushing himself.

It's almost showing the essence of the greatness of what we can all be.

He is able to control his mind and say, I'm going to play the perfect game.

He told us that he wanted a free solo Al Cap.

And I was like, I don't know if we can make that film.

Why did you say that?

As a filmmaker, you're accountable.

I knew what the burden would feel like

that someone could die on your watch.

You're on a 3,000 foot wall swinging around for hours on end.

One mistake could be catastrophic.

It's hard to say if I had ever be able to look through a

camera again. You have to film when you least want to film.

In this day and age, it's like hard to be present. Nobody knows what is real anymore, but this is real.

Physically, the climbs could be really difficult,

but not letting your mind slip.

That is the superpower, That is the challenge. Nobody's ever achieved anything great, being

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