The world's greatest free climber + active war zones = unhinged tourism.
Alex Honnold is the most accomplished free climber in the world. Angola is a southwest African country that recently emerged from 27 years of bloody civil war. What brings together these strange bedfellows you ask? Some of the most epic unclimbed rocks in the world, and a community needing help to diffuse the hidden land mines leftover from the conflict. (Plus a shadowy local hotel magnate, but we'll get into that later). This is Alex Honnold in Angola, for one of the most unique adventures of his storied climbing career this far.
Direction
Khayami weaves climbing and mine-clearing with zero heavy hand
Cinematography
Drone shots over minefields hit different, trust
Director
Abazar Khayami
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was shot immediately after Honnold's 2011 free solo of El Capitan's Sentinel, meaning his risk tolerance was already at 'legendary idiot' levels.
The landmines featured are primarily Soviet-made PMN-2s from the 1980s, still active and scattered across Angola's most climbable regions—literally unclimbed because no one could survive the approach.
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