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Alex Honnold
Alex Honnold's 2017 free solo ascent of El Capitan's 3,000-foot vertical face in Yosemite, climbing entirely without ropes or safety equipment, is widely regarded as one of the greatest athletic achievements in human history, and the 2018 documentary Free Solo chronicling the climb won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. His achievement required years of meticulous preparation, including memorizing every individual hand and foot placement across the route's thousands of feet, since a single mistake at nearly any point on the climb would have been fatal. Honnold's calm, methodical public demeanor when discussing the extreme risk of free soloing, including his own analytical explanations of how he manages fear during climbs, made him a subject of significant scientific interest, including brain imaging studies examining his neurological response to risk compared to typical subjects. His combination of an unprecedented, singular athletic achievement and the widely seen documentary chronicling it has made Honnold the individual most globally recognized rock climber in the sport's history, introducing free solo climbing to audiences far beyond the sport's traditional community.
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Adam Ondra
Adam Ondra became the first person to climb a route graded 9c, the sport's hardest confirmed difficulty rating, completing "Silence" in a Norwegian cave in 2017 after years of dedicated attempts, a technical achievement widely regarded as the most difficult single rock climb ever completed. His combination of exceptional physical strength, flexibility, and mental endurance has made Ondra the dominant competitive sport climber of his generation, and he's set numerous first ascents of the world's hardest rated routes across multiple countries throughout his career. Ondra's willingness to spend years working a single extremely difficult route, sometimes attempting the same climb dozens or hundreds of times before succeeding, reflected a level of dedicated persistence uncommon even among elite climbers pursuing the sport's outer technical limits. His combination of setting the sport's hardest confirmed grade and his sustained dominance across both competition and outdoor climbing has made Ondra the climber most widely regarded as the greatest sport climber currently competing, and arguably in the discipline's history.
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