I was just in Phoenix for a speaking event and had the time to sneak up Camelback Mountain afterward. It really exceeded expectations!! I love little bits of nature inside a city. And it had some pretty nice looking rock all over, though it was getting dark so it was slightly hard for me to tell where the actual climbing routes were.

Honored to be included in @TIME’s list of athletes. Pretty cool!

Hard to believe but yesterday marked 9 years since I free soloed El Cap. I celebrated the occasion by looking through some of the old photos and I was struck by how much I appreciated all the photos of friends - all the camera folks, riggers, climbing partners, and community that came together to help make the film Free Solo happen. This is a random carousel of behind the scenes images, all taken by @jimkchin. Mikey Schaefer appears in a lot of them since he was on the wall shooting so much. David Allfrey did a lot of rigging, @tommycaldwell1 was such a key partner for so much of the climbing. Basically, 9 years later I remember it all as a great time with friends. What an adventure! Ps - the climbing photo is from the Good Book, a super classic 5.10d I soloed for practice along the way.

Peak parenting moment: I got to take my 4 year old climbing with the help of a 10 year old assistant guide! Such a nice outing. Hopefully the start of many more adventures. For those who care - we climbed Knapsack Crack (3 pitch 5.5, though I’m pretty sure it was considered 5.3 when I was young) on Hogsback. It was the perfect introduction. And thanks to the lovely party that let us play through. Sorry for junk showing you guys…

I’ve recently discovered this podcast “excellence, actually” and I’m really into it. I particularly enjoyed this episode and think it’s worth sharing…. My favorite line was “AI in the classroom is like taking a forklift to the gym” open.spotify.com/episode/7fa…

A few really bad pics of a fun day of climbing at Lover’s Leap with the one and only @tommycaldwell1. We took a portaledge and climbed Out the Big Top, this crazy steep panel of rock part way up the wall. I’ve always thought of the Leap as incredible moderate climbing - turns out there’s one steep, hard pitch as well! Good effort by Nik Berry to first free this impressive pitch.

This is an article that I wrote following the death of Dean Potter in 2015 that I think does a good job of highlighting how inspirational he was to me personally and showing how much I admired his approach to his arts. The recent @HBO show The Dark Wizard used some of my interview clips to really make our relationship seem hyper competitive and dysfunctional, but the reality was a little more prosaic - we didn’t know each other super well and rarely saw each other. I was always kind of afraid of him because he was so intense. But I’d always been super inspired by his climbing and his vision. We overlapped in Yosemite to some extent from 2006 until his death in 2015, so that’s nearly a decade in which I was normally spending about 3 months a year in Yosemite. We each did a handful of climbs over that time that were considered “competitive” (the Nose speed record being an obvious example). When you see it all in a 4 episode documentary it seems super fast and extreme - when you actually live it over a decade it all feels a lot slower and more normal… The Dark Wizard does an amazing job of remembering Dean as the visionary climber that he was and it’s certainly worth a watch. Just remember that it’s edited for maximum effect. time.com/3898371/alex-honnol…

New episode of Planet Visionaries, in partnership with the @ROLEX Perpetual Planet Initiative! In this one, I get to chat marine biologist Sheena Talma and deep-sea explorer Katy Croff Bell about how only 0.001 percent of the deep ocean has been visually observed and why the deep ocean may be humanity’s greatest remaining frontier. #Rolex #PlanetVisionaries #PerpetualPlanet

So sad to hear about the death of Will Stanhope. We climbed together quite a lot a decade ago and he was one of my best adventure partners at the time. These pictures were all taken by Andrew Burr during a trip to Mexico we took to free an old aid line on Gran Trono Blanco. One classic memory of Will was from our first attempt to climb Southern Belle (5.12d X) on the South Face of Half Dome (his idea, not mine!) - he was leading a thin 5.12 splitter protected solely by small nuts (because he was way better at placing gear than me - I looked at the crack and said no way…) and got so pumped and so scared that toward the top of the pitch when he tried to place a nut he basically shook the rest of the nuts off the biner and dropped them all. I was just as gripped as he was. We rapped from that attempt and came back later to send. Will had his demons and struggled with alcohol, but he was an amazing climber and a great friend. He lived big - big feelings, both ups and downs, big sends, big adventures. Sending lots of love to his friends and family.

In this clip of Planet Visionaries, in partnership with the @ROLEX Perpetual Planet Initiative, I’m chatting with marine biologist Andrew Thurber about how deep-sea microbes regulate carbon and methane. #Rolex #PlanetVisionaries #PerpetualPlanet

New episode of Planet Visionaries, in partnership with the @ROLEX Perpetual Planet Initiative! In this episode, I talk with marine biologist Andrew Thurber and microbial oceanographer Allison Fong about how microscopic life shapes the stability of our planet. #Rolex #PlanetVisionaries #PerpetualPlanet

New episode of Planet Visionaries, in partnership with the @ROLEX Perpetual Planet Initiative!! In this episode, I get to talk with marine biologist Fernando Trujillo about his work protecting pink river dolphins in the Amazon and Orinoco basins. Listen now at the link in my bio! #PlanetVisionaries #PerpetualPlanet #Rolex

New episode of Planet Visionaries, in partnership with the @Rolex Perpetual Planet Initiative. In this episode, I chat with Dr. Sylvia Earle and Titouan Bernicot about the future of ocean conservation. #PlanetVisionaries #PerpetualPlanet #Rolex

New episode of Planet Visionaries, in partnership with the @ROLEX Perpetual Planet Initiative! I get to chat with two pioneers in neurotechnology, neuroscientist Laureate Grégoire Courtine and neurosurgeon Jocelyne Bloch, about how they are using their expertise to help paralyzed people walk again. Listen now at the link in my bio! #PerpetualPlanet #PlanetVisionaries #Rolex

New episode of Planet Visionaries, in partnership with the @ROLEX Perpetual Planet Initiative! In this one I get to chat with Joe McNeil, CEO of Sage Development Authority of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe. He’s focused on creating lasting stability for the next generation of Lakota people by taking back control of their energy future through building wind and solar projects that keep both revenue and opportunity within the community. #PlanetVisionaries #PerpetualPlanet #Rolex

I had the pleasure of adventuring around my home state of Nevada for a new TV series with @TravelNevada and Outside TV called “Get a Little Out There with Alex Honnold.” I can’t tell you how many only-in-Nevada experiences I had as I traveled from my home in Vegas up to the Cowboy Corridor in the north. This included searching for turquoise and meeting a donkey in a saloon. Classic Nevada!! “Get a Little Out There with Alex Honnold” premieres February 26th streaming exclusively on Outside TV. New episodes drop Thursdays. Link in my bio or visit outside.watch/GetALittleOutT… to watch on demand for free. @climbingmag @outsidemagazine

James Lucas got this assortment of photos at the crag the other day - he’s been playing with some kind of camera spinning distortion thing just to practice his art. Seems fitting though because it suits my experience on this particular route - I was all excited to do a silly new link up, finally sent it, and then realized that I’d already done it in 2022 and named it Baby Daddy (because it links off of an existing route named Baby and we were about to have our first daughter). The swirled, distorted effect perfectly suits my addled dad brain. But still nice to climb something, even if I’d done it a few years ago… I suppose this kind of thing will only happen more as I age…

Brand new episode of Planet Visionaries, in partnership with the @ROLEX Perpetual Planet Initiative! I get to chat with Indigenous environmental advocate Xiye Bastida about how hope, culture, and collective action can protect our planet. #Rolex #PerpetualPlanet #PlanetVisionaries

Some sick drone footage my friend Jonathan Siegrist got of me on my new project around Vegas - and video evidence that most of the climbing process is falling. Just ideally not when it matters most…