Making Home with Alex Honnold

The Alex Honnold you’re probably familiar with—the rock climber who sets speed records free soloing some of the gnarliest walls in the world—is only one snapshot in the home movie that makes up the person. For one thing, he spends just 5% of his climbing time on those high-difficulty, high-publicity exploits. The rest is rope climbing, bouldering, gym climbing. But there’s also what happens off the rock. No one, not even Alex Honnold, lives on the pitch. We live at home, the place we return to at the end o