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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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Janja Garnbret
Janja Garnbret won Olympic gold in sport climbing's combined event at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, the discipline's debut as a full Olympic sport, becoming the first-ever Olympic champion in climbing and establishing herself as the dominant competitive climber of her generation. Her sustained dominance across World Cup competitions throughout the 2010s and 2020s, winning an unusually high proportion of the events she entered across multiple different climbing disciplines, reflected genuinely all-around excellence uncommon even among elite competitive climbers. Garnbret successfully defended her Olympic title at the 2024 Paris Olympics, winning gold in the boulder and lead combined event again and becoming the first climber to win consecutive Olympic titles in the sport's still-young Olympic history. Her combination of being climbing's first-ever Olympic champion and her sustained back-to-back Olympic dominance has made Garnbret the individual most widely regarded as the greatest competitive sport climber in the discipline's Olympic era.
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